Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. To the waitresses of Philadelphia's Y. W. C. A. cafeteria: the bulk of the $10,000 estate of Cyrus J. Hull, 83-year-old Philadelphia eccentric who died month ago; as a reward for "cheerful service and kind attention...
...Goodrich's 67? bonds and all of the 5½% and 7% notes of Hood Rubber Co., a Watertown, Mass, subsidiary which manufactures Goodrich footwear as well as products under its own name. All this seemed commonplace enough to Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list of underwriters for the proposed issue, passed over the Cleveland investment house of Otis & Co. Cyrus Eaton used to be the principal partner in Otis & Co., which five years ago helped underwrite another Goodrich...
Lester Adelson, Robert Amory, Henry Aranow, Jr., Herbert Cyrus Barrows, Jr., Carl Livermore Billman, John Alden Bovey, Jr., Beverly Munford Bowie, Robert Vincent Cleary, John Phillips Coolidge, John Cornell, Edward Alfred Crane, Norman Benjamin Davison, Ernest Fasano, Charles Benjamin Feibleman, Comstock Glaser, Victor Bennett Glunts, Boies Chittenden Hart, Jr., Dayton Wood Hull, Julius Kaplan, Wilfred Kaplan, Thomas Joseph Keary...
...Yalemen, sons of a missionary named Dwight, had the idea first. They interested a rich New York merchant named Christopher Rhinelander Robert, who in turn interested an oldtime U. S.' missionary in Turkey named Cyrus Hamlin. Merchant & missionary failed, however, to interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that...
...since college days when he went to Columbia and she to nearby Barnard. Father Ochs smiled on the match, imposed only one stipulation: whoever became his son-in-law must also work on the Times. Willingly Arthur quit the silk business at which he had worked for his father, Cyrus L. Sulzberger. From his philanthropist father, Arthur had acquired a big urge for civic responsibility, and family pride in the fact that his great-great-grandfather was Lieut. Benjamin Mendes Seixas of the American Colonial Army...