Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Ledgers and Inquirer owned by old Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Against them is the Record, lusty bratling of Publisher Julius David Stern. They fight editorially-liberal, hard-hitting Record v. high Tory Public Ledgers and Inquirer. They fight for circulation-with the Record (149,000) now well ahead of the morning Public Ledger (105,000) and creeping up on the Inquirer, which still has an ample lead (232,000). Fiercest of all is the fight for advertising, in which the Record has beaten the Public Ledger, is worrying the Inquirer...
...Latin School. Mr. Northrop disapproved of the trustees' apparent desire that he be a financial as well as academic headmaster. Last week he pointed out that the school's chief competitor, progressive Francis W. Parker School, has a rich patroness (Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of the late Cyrus Hall McCormick), charges about half the Latin School tuition ($450 up). Headmaster Northrop's salary was cut to $10,000. The annuity plan, by which he had induced several teachers to come to the school, had never been realized. Chicago Latin School has no endowment; its only endowed scholarship...
...usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned as president of Curtis Publishing Co., became chairman...
...Seiberling, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sebastian Spering Kresge, Byron D. Miller (Woolworth), William Wallace Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Henry Latham Doherty, Joseph and Robert Graham, William Larimer Mellon, Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles and William Fisher, Albert Russell Erskine, Frank Ernest Gannett, Bernard Gimbel, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...