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Those are some of the qualities that led Judge Elbert H. Gary to make Mr. Farrell president of U. S. Steel in 1911. He had begun work in a New Haven wire mill; soon he made himself one of the best wire pullers in the country. Shortly after, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary organized the steel corporation (1901). Mr Farrel became president of U. S. Steel Products Co., the corporation's export division. He was the best salesman of steel goods then known...
...Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...
...Judge Elbert Henry Gary, at the 31st general meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan, said: "Opportunities in this country are better than ever before-every man must admit this. Never before in my affiliation with the steel industry has there been a time when governmental administration was honestly, sincerely and actually so much interested in the prosperity of the people of the country...
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...found the questions both stimulating and instructive and feel sure that we shall be forever in your debt for doing a work which can only be compared with that of Elbert Hubbard...