Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from trust to trust, rocked the whole U. S. When, in 1924, it was announced that "the terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business ethics," has been on the lookout for more ethical business heroes ever...
...apartment house on Manhattan's Park Ave., rides the subway to No. 71 Broadway every day. Known as the world's richest clerk, he has successfully fought publicity of any kind. The famed Filbert legend of aloofness was started many years ago by the late great Elbert Henry Gary. Said the Judge, "I have known Filbert-I mean Mr. Filbert-for 35 years as intimately as anybody could know such a man, and I have never been able to find out what that J of the middle initial stands...
...Founder Elbert Green Hubbard was known in his day as the Hero of the Simple Life. Playboy, philosopher, publisher, poseur, he founded the Roycrofters in 1895 from an idea he picked up at William Morris' hand-made-book works in England. When he returned to the U. S. he was downcast by the shoddy vulgarity of the 1890's, developed his own creed of beauty & culture. Everyone, he believed, wanted to create something beautiful and useful with his hands. The Roycroft Shops gave anyone who went to East Aurora material with which to work...
Book, Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, and the famed Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (first published in 1923). Under Hubbard II the publishing business has grown. Last week he pointed with pride to 1,500 orders on hand for Little Journeys and a new memorial edition on the press...
...Elbert Green Hubbard was twice married, begat five children, all living. Surviving also is his first wife, Bertha, mother of Elbert II, Sandy, Ralph, Catherine. His second wife, Alice, bore him one daughter and died with him on the S. S. Lusitania...