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...disturbed by his constant defeats. Says he: "I hate all forms of exercise." He has little interest in anything not connected with building, seldom reads anything but the newspapers and magazines. To visitors in his office Bill Levitt likes to hand out copies of his favorite book, Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia...
...Alabama, eleven candidates had declared for Big Jim Folsom's job (Alabama governors may not succeed themselves). Most conspicuous were Judge Elbert Boozer, who moves about with a $20,000 trailer built as a replica of the state capitol, complete with desks, radio telephones and a copper dome raised and lowered pneumatically; Eugene ("Bull") Connor, Birmingham's police commissioner, whose political views are enshrined in his remark: "I ain't going to let no darkies and white folks segregate together in this town"; and Gordon Persons, Public Service Commission chairman, who will campaign by helicopter...
...ELBERT M. CONOVER Director
...there is in the U.S. no one plant making steel cars exclusively. Instead of having one mill make ten, 20 or 50 products, why not have one mill make one product, and that continuously?" Morgan's imagination caught fire. He cornered the willing Schwab after dinner. Morgan, with Elbert Gary as his chief negotiator, set about the making of a great new steel combine...
...Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...