Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andrew Carnegie named one of his steel plants after Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in order to increase his chances of getting Pennsy business. In England, Cyrus McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was given a testimonial dinner by Philadelphians. Senator George Wharton Pepper called him "the ideal American.'' Said Publisher Curtis: "I never expected to have anything of this sort happen...
...Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last year became affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music, secured the backing of a $12,500,000 endowment fund and the interest of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of the late editor Edward William Bok of Ladies' Home Journal, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Great pet of Mrs. Bok is the Curtis Institute given in memory of her mother. Its opera students needed an outlet for their new-trained talents. Philadelphia needed one really first-rate resident opera company. In collaboration with Mrs. Leidy, still active president, Mrs. William C. Hammer, artistic...
Imposing is the pyramid of railroad securities erected by Cleveland's diligent Van Sweringen brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. Imposing too is the collection of many shares in many industries used by Clevelander Cyrus Stephen Eaton in his spectacular bids for leadership in industry. About the Van Sweringen pyramid last week swirled gusts of rumor. And many were the tales in Manhattan that a vast shuffle in the Eaton pack had changed his hand...
Steel Shift. Siding with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube management against Cyrus Stephen Eaton in the longdrawn Youngstown-Bethlehem merger fight, have been Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland ironmen. Last week Pickands, Mather & Co. acquired a substantial interest in Empire Steel Corp. (not to be confused with Canada's British Empire Steel Corp. Ltd.) whose six plants are in the heart of territory covered by Mr. Eaton's Republic Steel Corp. Empire specializes in sheet steel for the automobile, refrigerator and metal furniture trades. It was formed in 1927, soon acquired several small steel companies...