Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward was a promotion, a D.S.C...
...most forceful officer I have ever known" was the way Major Elbert Helton, one of the 19th's squadron commanders, characterized 37-year-old Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, who was wounded over Surabaya but managed to land his B18 on a small airfield. Colonel Straubel had died when help arrived...
...about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased...
...went to Elbert H. Baker, a tanner's son, who started as bookkeeper for the Cleveland Herald, switched to advertising, was hired by the Cleveland Leader, and then by Holden. Manager-publisher-editor of the Plain Dealer from 1898 to 1920 (when he retired), Elbert Baker began the then-sensational policy of telling the truth about circulation, bought wire services, hammered at separation of news and editorial, won a remarkable loyalty from his staff. In Baker's first years the rival Cleveland Leader, way out ahead of the Plain Dealer, paid little attention to Baker; when it realized...
Moderator William Davis and Vice Moderator Elbert Thomas, Senator from Utah, had gone to Mr. Roosevelt in despair. There were three points, they reported, on which all hands would agree: 1) no strikes or lockouts for the duration; 2) settlement of all disputes through step-by-step conciliation, mediation, arbitration; 3) creation of a War Labor Board to handle the disputes. But management wanted a fourth point: no further discussion of the closed shop until the war 'is over. Labor wanted to discuss nothing else...