Word: eaton
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...both sides have had little success with legal strategy. The Central had asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate some of Young's stock deals (his sale to Cyrus Eaton of control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and the C. & O.'s sale of its New York Central holdings to Murchison-Richardson). But the ICC last week turned down the request. The Central filed another petition asking whether Young's slate could be lawfully seated if elected, but chances for a favorable ruling on that seemed slim, too. From another quarter, the Central gained an ally...
Ever since the first head of Harvard College, Samuel Eaton, was thrown out for serving the students "insipid porridge," College presidents have been painfully aware that although man does not live by bread alone, erudition comes easier on a happily full stomach...
...unfailing truth that the presidents of Harvard who have been mindful of the food, like Henry Dunster and John Leverett, have gone down in history as great and even had Houses named after them--for the same reason that no one would consider naming a House after presidents Eaton or Hoar who treated the culinary arts with indifference...
Specifically, the Central charged that the sale by Young's Alleghany Corp. of its Chesapeake & Ohio stock holdings to Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton was just a trick to skirt the ICC rules, that Young and Alleghany still control the line. C. & 0. Board Chairman Eaton, said the Central, had obligingly sold the C. & O.'s 800,000 shares of Central stock, which had been held by a trustee, to Young's millionaire friends Sid Richardson...
Clint Murchison so they could vote it. "Eaton," said the Central darkly, "does Young's bidding...