Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanatic nationalist, in 1935 he changed Persia's name to Iran, which had been its name as a nation even before the great days of Cyrus and Darius and Xerxes. Persia ("Pars") was merely one of Iran's provinces. In the same spirit, he chose to add Pahlavi to his name. It means "the Parthian." In classic times, the Parthians were famed mounted bowmen...
According to New York Times Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger, German bombing did just what it was intended to do: snarl communications and service. Wrote Sulzberger, after a spectacular three-day flight from Belgrade to Greece, of the scene after the first raids on Skoplje...
Management's representatives were : Cyrus Ching, director of industrial and public relations for U. S. Rubber, who in 30 years of dealing with labor has consistently urged moderation, cooperation; Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of the board of Standard Oil of N. J., a top-notch production man with a knack for getting on with oilmen; Eugene Meyer, millionaire publisher (Washington Post), ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernard Baruch's financial right hand on the War Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American...
Died. Allen Ledyard Lindley, 60, longtime Wall Street broker, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct until June 1937, grandson of cable-laying Cyrus W. Field; after brief illness; in Englewood...
From Philadelphia, one day last week, came the announcement that the seven trustees of the estate of late, great Publisher Cyrus Curtis had sold the evening Public Ledger to a company headed by Robert Cresswell, treasurer until last month of the New York Herald Tribune...