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...magazine to "give the art of poetry a voice in the land. . . ." The replies were enthusiastic; Amy Lowell sent a check for $25, and Ezra Pound (then in London) agreed to become Poetry's first, unsalaried foreign editor. Harriet Monroe knocked on wealthy Chicago doors (Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Dawes), soon begged enough money to start...
Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton takes chances and his plans are large. Once Financier Eaton had almost within his grasp a billion-dollar Midwest empire of steel, iron ore and utilities. The depression tumbled it about his ears in 1931. Eaton picked himself up from the ruins and, at 47, started the long climb back...
Premium Iron was Cyrus Eaton under another name; he owned 74.4% of it, and his good friend, Otis & Co.'s President William Raymond Daley, owned the rest. The contract gave Premium 2% on all Steep Rock sales. Salesman Eaton then got the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., on whose board he sits, to agree to buy all the ore that Steep Rock could produce and Premium Iron could sell...
...expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
NAVARRO'S IDEA UNIVERSE INSIDE EARTH [TIME, JULY 14] HARDLY NOVEL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, FOLLOWERS OF [KORESHANITY'S CYRUS TEED], BELIEVED THIS EVER SINCE 1870. KORESHAN COLONY AT ESTERO, FLORIDA, NOW A MERE PITIFUL REMNANT, HARDLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GALLANT EARLY EFFORTS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO COULD HARDLY BE CLASSED AS IGNORANT OR SUPERSTITIOUS...