Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wroxeter, a shattered Roman tablet related, when pieced together, that the Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints...
Judge Gary's rise in the world was complete by 1901. Thereafter his vertical progress became lateral. A trust-building period was just closing in 1901. A "trust-busting" period was to follow. Judge Gary met Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 and, when the investigation of the U. S. Steel instigated by Mr. Roosevelt was completed in 1920, it was apparent that not even Mr. Roosevelt had worked harder than Judge Gary against the predatory tendencies of the trusts...
...hour day were policies embraced by Judge Gary before others forced them upon him. He read the times aright, saw that industry would be humanized and might better prosper by humanizing itself. In 1918 Judge Gary refused to receive Samuel Gompers resenting labor's attempt to unionize the steel industry for ends which the steel industry already had in view. A strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good a labor organizer as the unions had; again proved himself the next man's equal at improving his own ethics. Stockholders liked him. Besides paying...
...never hurt a man in business." Last week the outstanding examplar of a very sound old saying that one is, finished his long career -Judge Elbert H. Gary died in Manhattan at 81, the, as yet, unretired board chairman of the largest corporation in the world U. S. steel. He read law in his Uncle Henry's (Colonel Henry Valetted) office at Naperville, Ill., after returning from volunteer service in the Civil...
...rather than inspirational brilliance. In 1882, only thirteen years after he began private practice, his friends made him County Judge of Dupage County. After two four-year terms he refused a third carrying his title back to his own practice, which in 1852 began to be identified with the steel industry. How he conducted the incorporation of the American Steel & Wire Co. in a way that impressed the elder J. P. Morgan, how Mr. Morgan immediately engaged him to amalgamate and head the Federal Steel Corp., how Judge Gary kept insisting that a still bigger corporation must be formed...