Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Depression nipped him in 1930, Cyrus Stephen Eaton had realized only one of his many ambitions. Out of a tiny utility property picked up cheap in the 1907 panic he had built one of the largest power & light systems in the U. S. He had wanted to form the Second Biggest Steel Company. As the largest investor in the largest rubber companies he had planned to bring peace to that warring industry. But. above all. this youngish man from Pugwash. Nova Scotia dreamed of a Midwest industrial empire, vast, powerful, autonomous. His holding company was appropriately Continental Shares...
...Cleveland where plants were booming at 77% of capacity, talk of steel mergers was sprouting again last week-sure sign of a jubilant industry. It concerned no Bethlehem-Youngstown merger but it did deal with the scattered relics of Cyrus Eaton's industrial empire-big Republic with small ($34,000,000) Otis Steel and smallish ($54,000,000) Corrigan-McKinney Steel. Interest was added to this report by the fact that a block of 50,000 shares of Cliffs Corp. which controls Corrigan-McKinney was included in the collateral that Cyrus Eaton put up for a big loan from...
When an interviewer asked Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis what piece of music he would like to listen to on his deathbed, he promptly replied: "Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...
...weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such...
...Cyrus Curtis did not go into the newspaper business until he had amassed a vast fortune from the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. The advertising solicitors of his newspapers have loudly argued that the Record is "vulgar . . . with no quality, no class circulation." But the ultimate in Philadelphia quality and "class" is Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the chief executive of Mr. Curtis' magazines. Unsuspecting, she had given her picture and endorsement to Judith Jennings, the Record's vivacious society editor...