Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...
Terrible-tempered Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 69, who already owned six newspapers in five states,* bought the Odessa American, in partnership with 20 employees, for more than $200,000. Like the Chicago Tribune, whose editorials he reprints on days when his own spleen is small, Publisher Hoiles knows how to make people mad and make...
...Cyrus Eaton was not cowering in his corner. The charges, he insisted, "can only be characterized as false and malicious. They provide the final proof that the commission has completely become the tool of our Wall Street rivals, already facing anti-trust proceedings, whose business we have steadily been taking away by our honest, but unwelcome, free competition...
...Securities and Exchange Commission came out fighting another round with Financier Cyrus Eaton. During the four-month investigation of his ole in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s $10 million underwriting fiasco (TIME, May 24), Eaton had tried to slow up SEC by ridiculing, cajoling, pleading and threatening, had finally gone into a clinch with a legal gimmick involving lawyer-client privilege. Last week SEC decided to try for a knockout. It ordered a hearing next month to decide whether Eaton's Otis & Co. should be allowed to stay in business...
...company was one of the underwriting syndicate, along with Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co., which promised to float the third Kaiser-Frazer stock issue. When Eaton called off the deal (TIME, May 3), Allen stuck to his word, handed K-F a check for some $2,500,000, ready to take the loss. (K-F later returned the check...