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...April 9, 1908, steel production was running at a rate barely half of that which had marked 1907. But on that day the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary assumed an unusual position. Said he: "The mere fact that the demand is greater than the supply does not justify an increase in price, nor does the fact that the demand is less than the supply furnish an argument for lowering the price." For the rest of 1908 the composite price of finished steel remained virtually unchanged. In January 1909 it was 1.82? a pound. Prices for succeeding months were...
Professional Prohibitors who last week put their views before the House committee were: Dr. Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses...
During the long and peaceful reign of Judge Elbert Henry Gary, U. S. Steel and the whole steel industry seemed to have passed forever beyond their fighting days. But last autumn, with Judge Gary two years dead, it was evident that Steel's warlords were rousing for new struggles. Last week there began Steel's mightiest pitched battle for many a year. Bethlehem stood pitted against its new rival, Republic. The prize: Youngstown Sheet & Tube, which, for the first time, was divided against itself...
...America issued a detailed, dramatic report of these conditions. The report constituted a declaration of war. After interminable skirmishing the first major victory for the Church was the abolition of the twelve-hour day in the plants of the U. S. Steel Corp. by the late great Steelman Elbert Henry Gary, who was long famed for referring to the Bible in public speeches. Mr. Gary did not say what hours would be tolerated, but remarked "it is now time to adopt the eight-hour...
...beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...