Word: hubbardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." said the late Elbert Green Hubbard long before he died but well after he had made $75,000 selling soap. Had he been alive last week to read the news of his Roycrofters he would have had little to bellyache about...
Surrounded by a capitalist world deep in Depression, the printing and bookbinding plants which Elbert Hubbard founded on a profit-sharing basis in 1895 reported they were working on two shifts 24 hours a day. His son, Elbert Hubbard II, now head of the Roycrofters in East Aurora, N. Y., made the surprising announcement. He admitted business had not been quite up to last year's standard until a recent flood of rush orders promised continuous work for several months for the 175 Roycrofters. Socialistic, outdoor man like his father, Brother Hubbard saw the end of Depression, fell into...
...flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary of $50 a week. Now the Roycrofters looks like any other family-owned company. Assets are about $700,000; there are preferred shares which pay dividends, common shares which do not. Brother Hubbard controls the company, a half-sister owns an interest, craftsmen are paid wages...
Married. Frances Elkington Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears. Roebuck & Co.; and Calvin Fentress Jr. of Hubbard Woods, Ill.; by Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, uncle of the bride; at Highland Park...
...Aldrich '31; Straus A 12: H. M. Smallwood; Straus D 21: R. C. Berresford, T. H. Eliot '28; Massachusetts 17; J. L. Reid '29; Lionel A 21: T. W. Dunn '31, E. S. Amazeen 31; Mower A 11: K. N. Marshall '21; Hollis 9: J. C. Hubbard...