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...time to the Institute, will receive a large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief...
...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...
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...