Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyrus Hamlin, founder of Istanbul's Robert College, named for the New York merchant who paid for the site...
This resulted from Pennsy's attempt last July to sell a $28,483,000 bond issue of its subsidiary Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Co. through Kuhn, Loeb, which had long been handling most of their refinancing. As usual, prompt objection had come from peppery Cyrus Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co., and from publicity-shy, dapper Harold Stuart of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. Champions of competitive bidding from way back, they cried that the traditional system of financing through private negotiation be tween underwriters and railroads had al lowed Kuhn, Loeb and Manhattan's Morgan...
...Shall we have a revival of honest competition in private finance or will we persist in our present ways until the Government takes over all the banking business in America?" Unorthodox, white-haired Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. asked U.S. financiers this question this week in Financial World. He promptly answered it with harsh words for Manhattan's investment bankers, with whom he has long feuded over competitive bidding for rail road and utility issues. Said...
Lieut. General William S. Knudsen. Director of Production in the Office of the Under Secretary of War, was president of General Motors. Brigadier General Cyrus R. Smith of the Air Transport Command was president of American Airlines. Brigadier General Thomas B. Wilson, now chief of transport in an overseas theater, was chairman of Transcontinental & Western...
...Such as:. Mrs. Philip Armour Jr., Mrs. Donald Allison, Mrs. Cyrus Adams...