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...Persuading U.S. Steel's legendary board chairman, the late Elbert H. Gary, to pay a cool $5,000,000 for the Empire Building at Broadway and Rector Street where Big Steel had made its offices for years. Day sold Judge Gary on staying where he was by simply letting him reminisce about the steel history that had been made in the old building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Engaged. Alice Brisbane, 20, daughter of late famed Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane; and Army Air Forces Lieut. Elbert Haring Chandor, 23, Manhattan Social Registerite, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Appointed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Senator Elbert D. Thomas as the Government's delegates to the ILO conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Utah's Senator Elbert Duncan Thomas: he fought throughout the year for a billion-dollar veterans' re-education program for improved child-care services, and after a decade of effort got a proxime accessit for a U.S. appropriation to help state schools (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Laurels for Five | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did the final busting in 1911. Her rose-tinted 1925 biography of U.S. Judge Elbert H. Gary foreshadowed her discovery of the ideal businessman in 1932's Owen D. Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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