Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leisure had never been Editor Lorimer's lot. When in 1898 successful Ladies' Home Journal publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 for the Satevepost (circulation: 1,800) it was a dull little rehash of British journals. Yale-educated young Lorimer, a modestly paid 30-year-old reporter on the Boston Post and only three years out of Armour & Co.'s Chicago glue works, heard of the purchase, hastily wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot...
Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find...
...grandson of the old transatlantic cableman, Cyrus W. Field, sharp-eyed Mr. Lindley has been a member of the Stock Exchange since 1902, a governor since 1916. In the 77th Division he served as an infantry captain in the War. Exchange members first chose him to be their disciplinarian in 1930, learned to like his strictness better than SEC spankings. When the nominating committee failed to rename him for governor last year he ran independently, easily...
United Press moved Julius Frandsen from New York to head the strike desk and Joe E. Morris from Washington to help him. Young Cyrus Sulzberger, nephew of the New York Times's publisher, is one of the U. P. Labor specialists remaining in Washington. All U. P. men have been ordered to write strictly down the middle of the road, to balance each line favorable to one side with one for the opposition...
...newshawks trooped into Mr. Ball's suite, they glanced about for some of the familiar financial faces that reports had linked to the deal-Boston's old Frederick Henry Prince, Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton, General Motors' Donaldson Brown. None was there. Talking in a corner was Erie R. R.'s Chairman Charles Leininger Bradley but he was obviously on hand to talk to his new bosses. Old Mr. Ball, neat, spare, paternal, stood chatting with newshawks, giving as good as he received, just as he did in Washington when Montana's Wheeler...