Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literate U. S. citizens that combination of names could suggest only one thing-the great Philadelphia publishing family long headed by Cyrus H. K. Curtis and well served by his son-in-law, Edward William Bok. Mr. Bok died in 1930, Mr. Curtis last month. To Curtis Bok, able grandson of an able grandfather, able son of an able father, passed the prestige and tradition and responsibility, if not the immediate wealth of the Curtis-Bok family. But when for the first time since his succession Curtis Bok stepped into the limelight to perform an important act of public service...
Empire, Not until it turned into the 20th Century did the U. S. magazine business start swelling to mammoth proportions. At the root of that amazing growth was Cyrus Curtis who developed advertising as a sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...
...only work that shows the influence of the modern school is that of Richard Ricci, whose Great Horned Owl, a bronze, may be considered a fine example of the modernistic trend in art. Cyrus Dalls, perhaps the best known of the exhibitors, has three Indian subjects on display, all in bronze. Anna Ladd, who had some of her works criticised as "Indecent" by Boston critics, has the largest exhibit. Her "Three Saintly Queens" are noteworthy, and in the opinion of Ralph Adams Cram are the best works produced in Boston for the last few years. Other of her bronzes...
...Cyrus Eaton's fight against the Bethlehem-Youngstown merger that blasted his fame & fortune. He wanted Youngstown for his own big Republic Steel but the battle was fought in the name of industrial independence for the Midwest. To finance that battle Continental Shares pledged most of its assets for bank loans. The Eaton victory was Pyrrhic. By 1931 slumping stock prices pushed his loans under water and Cleveland bankers ousted him as president in favor of George Taylor Bishop, a semi-retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy...
Thus the final dissolution of Cyrus Eaton's empire seemed inevitable. Yet like many another onetime tycoon Cyrus Eaton lives on in a manner which wholly belies his business disasters. He has abandoned his palatial Euclid Avenue house (along with other Clevelanders who shared his faith ) but at his country home in nearby Northfield a butler still answers the door, stable boys mind the horses and a half-dozen gardeners putter around the 200-acre estate, and he is still Master of Hounds at the Summit Hunt Club. He has a small office in vastly-deflated Otis...