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...Franklin Myth. In another crisis, a generation before, shrewd Cyrus H. K. Curtis had put in young George Horace Lorimer, who ran the Post for 39 years (1898-1937). Curtis had bought the feeble Post and its 2,222 circulation for $1,000 in 1897. (The logotype then read "Founded A.D. 1821." Curtis, stretching the facts a bit, changed it to "Founded A.D. 1728 by Benj. Franklin." Actually Ben didn't found it, but simply bought a magazine called the Pennsylvania Gazette, which eventually became the Post...
...special courtesy, young Cyrus L. Sulzberger of the New York Times got a private tour (Russian correspondents at U.N. had visited his uncle's plant some months ago). He noted that Pravda' s acidulous David Zaslavsky, journalistic gadfly of the Western World, is "an amiable man who looks like anybody's favorite grandfather." On the mass tour, the Associated Press's Wes Gallagher found that Peter Pospelov, Pravda's editorial chief, "looks like a member of a Midwestern legislature." Pravda gets 15,000 letters a month from its readers, only 40 or 50 of them...
Into the Big Time. By 1824, the upS coming Roosevelts were able to help found the Chemical Bank (now the giant Chemical Bank & Trust Co., with which Roosevelts are stillassociated). As a big-time house, Roosevelt & Son helped finance Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds, did battle with Robber Baron Jay Gould...
...days of maneuvering, Lewis had talked to men like his old friend & enemy Harry Moses, of U.S. Steel, and Cyrus Eaton, of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; it was gradually borne in on him that Harry Truman might be calling his bluff. Eaton was anxious to bring about negotiations; Moses was willing-on his terms. But Harry Truman was adamant. And now the impossible had happened. Lewis had actually been convicted of contempt. Horatius heard the tramp of the Tuscans' feet...
Bankers and industrialists debated with heat. Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton, who wanted operators to negotiate with Lewis, lunched with him. So did Big Steel's Harry Moses. Eaton, director of the coal-carrying C. & 0. railroad, wanted to get the coal moving again. He was also vehemently sure that if the strike was strung out and coal shipments were completely stopped, European nations would be thrown into the lap of Communism. There was at least some basis for Eaton's international fears. All the world watched. In cold & hungry Asia, in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon and Singapore, among...