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...worrisome problems of U.S. rearmament and inflation flew flapping home to roost. Both the C.I.O. steelworkers and the major U.S. steel plants washed their hands of all responsibility for a strike that was set for New Year's Day. After futile attempts to bring them together, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching conceded defeat and admitted: "It is the biggest domestic crisis we have or could have...
...lower Rio Grande Valley, Quentin Newcombe tacked a sign: "The Valley Evening Monitor, the Valley Morning Star and the Brownsville Herald are . . . against our American public-school system. Buy other newspapers and help drive these objectionable carpetbaggers from our valley." The "carpetbagger" Newcombe meant is 73-year-old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, a pinch-faced Californian who looks and acts as if he had just bitten into an unripe persimmon...
...against his own $107,004. Answered Taft, who set the expenditures for his campaign at roughly $612,000: "For every one dollar spent in my behalf by my supporters, my opponents spent three." Among Taft's free-spending opponents, the subcommittee was told, was Cleveland Financier Cyrus S. Eaton. Witnesses said that Eaton and his associates had dished, out a total of $35,000. Republican donors were a little harder to trace. Taft's campaign treasurer, Ben Tate, blandly admitted destroying his itemized records of some contributions...
Fairless became a crack salesman for Central Steel, thought up ingenious tricks to grab business, often from under U.S. Steel's nose. By the time he was 38, Fairless was president of Central. When Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton combined it with his new Republic Steel in 1930, Fairless became executive vice president of the new giant. Soon Big Steel's Myron Taylor discovered that wherever Big Steel was losing business, it was frequently losing it to Fairless. Taylor went after him, and hired...
After graduating from the seminary, Finkelstein took a small congregation in The Bronx, where he stayed for twelve years. When he was midway in this work, the seminary's next president, Cyrus Adler, persuaded him to join the faculty "for a year or two." He stayed for 15 years, and when Adler died, 44-year-old Louis Finkelstein succeeded...