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Opening the West. The first man to do things in the lazy Santa Fe style was a Topeka lawyer named Cyrus Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial...
Defeated once in the lower courts, Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, managers of Brattle Films Inc., will continue to protest the constitutionality of the Public Safety Commissioner's banning powers. Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance...
Samuel L. Baily III; Ebenezer F. Bowditch, Jr.; Peter Buffington; Thomas C. Cochran, Jr.; Malcolm F. Davis; Edmond R. DuPont; David Falk; Cyrus Hamlin; David T. Harper, Jr.; Ronald P. Mischner (captain); Duane J. Murner; Avery D. Pratt, Jr.; George H. Shaprie; Alan D. Slotkin; Michael B. Smith; Alton L. Steiner; Gregory B. Stone; Griffith J. Winthrop; Stuart G. McCornack (manager...
Died. Charlotte Anita Whitney, 87, Mayflower-descended, socially prominent California Communist leader and perennial party candidate for state and federal offices; in San Francisco. The daughter of a wealthy California lawyer, and a niece of onetime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field and transatlantic-cable sponsor Cyrus W. Field, Charlotte Whitney was graduated from Wellesley, turned to Communism as an answer to the poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World...
...last minute, Federal District Judge Herbert S. Boreman stepped in. He declared last week that the Follansbee stockholders vote approving the deal was null and void on the ground that Follansbee management had omitted vital facts and figures from its proxy statement. Then Cleveland's Financier Cyrus Eaton appeared on the scene...