Word: hubbarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Crew--Stroke, Rumsey; 7, McNitt; 6, Bodell; 5, Rollins; 4, Blatchford; 3, Streeter; 2, Baxter; bow, Hubbard; cox, Masters...
Sirs: Having read with interest the many letters pro and con on the New Deal I have since wondered how many readers are familiar with a quotation attributed by Elbert Hubbard* to Abraham Lincoln: "Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product...
...Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
Last week, under a blazing sun on the range of the U. S. Park Police at Abingdon, Va., Chief Gunner Charles Hubbard, U. S. C. G., bellowed "ready to the right, ready to the left, ready behind the line, FIRE!" As a line of targets swung into position, a line of Treasury pistols cracked, and better than nine out of ten of their shots pierced the 3¼-in. bull's-eyes. Best individual shot among the Treasury's men was an affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week...
...whom it may concern: there is no money in this safe, only some papers of no value to any one. Please do not break open." Last week a thief broke into Hurson's store, grinned at the sign, cracked the safe, found it as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...