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Moscow was again the capital of Russia this week. "Today," wrote New York Timesman. Cyrus Sulzberger in his first Moscow dispatch in two months, "the sun rose propitiously, shining on the placid white streets while the inordinately gay Muscovites, relieved of strain, bustled about doing their Sunday shopping, jesting at the latest posters ridiculing the retreating Germans...
There will soon be an OPA ceiling on new passenger car prices. That was the upshot of a breezy meeting held this week between OPA's Cyrus McCormick and 81 important auto dealers. But the automen were not worried. The ceiling formulas proposed were satisfactory, and nothing was said about used cars...
...Cyrus McCormick had in effect told the dealers their role in the emergency was to make all the money they could without working too hard. His general suggestions: 1) sell new cars only at full list price, 2) stop overtrading, 3) build up the service end of their business...
Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska...
Married. William Davey, stepson of Cyrus McCormick (reapers), son of Painter Randall Davey; and Roberta Storms Runyon of Chicago; each for the second time; in Santa...