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After a 54-year argument, a Boston, Mass, sculptor, 78-year-old Cyrus E. Dallin. was finally commissioned to cast in bronze a statue of Paul Revere. One of Sculptor Dallin's appeals: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the ignoble failure of Boston to rear The greatest creation of my long career, The equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with...
With this letter, sent also to the Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Rabbi Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Mr. Roosevelt announced a significant appointment...
...Well did Pete Nehemkis know that Mr. Stanley was the leader of the conservative Wall Street group (including such firms as Kuhn, Loeb, Lee Higginson, First Boston) which has frigidly rejected competition. When such competition-minded houses as Chicago's Halsey, Stuart, such individuals as Cleveland's Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton, walk in the front door with bids for securities issues, Morgan Stanley & friends stalk out the side exit...
...went the big, capable hand of Leon Henderson. Competitive bidding, said he, would be discussed later. Harold Stanley persisted, for well he knew that when TNEC gets into competitive bidding, such insurgents as Cyrus Eaton and Alleghany Corp.'s unruly Bob Young may get the first say, put Morgan Stanley & Co. on the defensive with tail-end statements in news stories...
Early this week Jerome Frank and the SEC were deliberating in Washington whether to give any ear whatsoever to Cyrus Eaton & friends...