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William J. Filbert was elected vice chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee, a new office created last week. Bald, stocky, with a set mouth and prominent, piercing eyes, this almost unknown officer of the Steel company stepped into a place second only to Myron Charles Taylor...
...Filbert's life has been given up to details-a tireless march down endless columns of Arabic numerals. Row after row of digits, decimals, averages, percentages-he makes them talk, tells their secrets only to Steel's directors...
Around Steel's offices there has grown up a fable of Filbertana: he is worth $5,000,000; he has never been wrong, never given a tip; often he locks himself in a hotel room for days working on some gigantic tabulation. In 1881 Bill Filbert started business life in the purchasing department of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. Later he went to the accounting department, became its chief. He has been with Steel since the late great John Pierpont Morgan organized it in 1901. Comptroller since 1902, a director since 1920, a finance committeeman since 1922, he lives quietly...
Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...
...wormwood. Among the early season distresses of the last type can be named the Histrionic Club's annual December production, "The Banana Comedy." True this is but a premature production staged by prematures. True Cattle Hall lacks the proper acoustics. Yet there can be no excuse for robbing Filbert Soldhis of his gall for the annual wormwood of the Histrionic Society...