Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adopted a resolution of sorrow at the death of Utah's ex-Senator Elbert Thomas, 69, high commissioner of U.S. Trust territory in the Pacific (see MILESTONES...
...ELBERT PARR TUTTLE, 55, Atlanta tax lawyer and post-convention Republican state chairman, to be general counsel (head of the Legal Division) of the Treasury Department. Tuttle's high-domed head and earnest oratory came to the attention of several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under...
...Small Clique." When the Foster faction made much of the court ruling before the national committee, Atlanta Lawyer Elbert Tuttle had a sharp retort: "This lawsuit is another evidence of the conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings...
...past, concede that steelmakers cannot expand any faster without crippling civilian and defense production. And no one has set a higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
...competition as anarchic. He believed in "rationalizing" competition by mergers. Having rationalized railroads, he had gone a long way toward rationalizing steel before he conceived his master plan. He had merged two steel plants, an ore company and a railroad into the Federal Steel Co., with Illinois' Judge Elbert H. Gary at the helm, and merged 19 steel-fabricating plants into National Tube. Yet the whole steel industry was still dominated by Pittsburgh's sturdy Scottish rebel, Andrew Carnegie, who in 1900 turned out almost half of the nation's annual 10 million tons...