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Early one morning last week Judge David G. Jenkins walked into his Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas at Youngstown, Ohio, with a thoughtful frown on his face. Since April he had been studying the famed suit by which Cyrus Stephen Eaton attempted to fulfill his vow that "Youngstown Sheet and Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp." (TIME, March...
...decision. To the Court Clerk the Judge handed 19 pages of foolscap, written in pencil. To newsmen he gave two similar sheaves which he had carefully copied from the original, fearful of stenographic errors. It was still before 9 a. m. when the news was flashed from Youngstown that Cyrus Stephen Eaton had won, that he had been granted an injunction blocking the merger. When the final history of Steel is written, an important chapter will be that which focuses in the Mid West, which will tell of Mr. Eaton's rise to steel power, of Bethlehem...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis fortified Philadelphia's chest with...
...week the house of Curtis began to do something which other publishers had been hoping and predicting for months that Curtis would do -plow in some of the profits of former years to bring greenness back to the drab winter fields of 1930-31. With the approval of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and Editor George Horace Lorimer, Mr. Healy accepted the services of President Arthur H. Kudner of Erwin, Wasey & Co., the man and agency who won a 1930 Bok Award for their post-crash slogan: "All right, Mister, now that the headache's over...
Andrew Carnegie named one of his steel plants after Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in order to increase his chances of getting Pennsy business. In England, Cyrus McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold...