Dave Elbert

Editor’s note: This is an installment of Elbert’s Backstories, a recurring feature in dsm magazine’s dsmWeekly newsletter written by longtime columnist Dave Elbert. To read more of Elbert’s Backstories, visit dsmMagazine.com. My favorite Bill Knapp quote was recorded in 1990 when Ken Pins and I were writing about the local power structure for the Des Moines Register, where Knapp was the most powerful of the 25 individuals we profiled.

Editor’s note: This is a one-time installment of The Elbert Files by Dave Elbert, a contributing writer for Business Record sister publication dsm magazine. Elbert has covered local history and Iowa business news for more than 40 years, first for the Des Moines Register and then the Business Record.

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