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...Edison, last week each voted him $6,000 a year. His friends did not like to call it a "pension," said rather it was payment for "overtime work in the past." Beclouded was the outlook for Mr. Insull's expensive hobby, Chicago's Civic Opera. In Cleveland, Cyrus Stephen Eaton told newspapermen he was sorry for Samuel Insull. When Mr. Insull found out in 1928 that Mr. Eaton was buying Insull securities, he hastened to form the holding companies whose collapse precipitated his downfall, just as Mr. Eaton's overextension caused...
Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year...
Echo. An echo of Frances T. Wick et al. v. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. still reverberated in the Ohio courts last week. Frances T. Wick et al. were the complainants through whom Cyrus Stephen Eaton halted the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and so doing caused his own downfall (TIME, May 4, 1931 et seq.). The echo was an action by which Youngstown's minority sought to force the company to pay them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were...
...Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson. His father, Rev. John Thomas Duffield, taught there for 56 years. His brother, Henry Green Duffield, was treasurer from 1901 to 1930. Than Ed Duffield no man appreciates more the remarkable group of trustees-including Moses Taylor Pyne, Bayard Henry, Charles Scribner, Cyrus McCormick, Melancthon W. Jacobus, Edward Sheldon, Henry B. Thompson-who built up the modern Princeton. None is more devoted than he to their belief that the genius of Princeton and its distinction lie and should remain in the undergraduate college rather than in the ramifications of a big university...
...similar chapel reserved for children. The late Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, gave $201,000 to establish the National Cathedral School for Girls. Givers of $100,000 or more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...