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...Entry. Last week, just as the court was to hand the paper over to the Times-Star, a new figure entered the scene. Cleveland Financier & Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, a big contributor to the Democrats in Ohio and an old enemy of Senator Bob Taft's, announced that his Portsmouth Steel Corp. would back the employees. Eaton sent the trustees a check for $1,250,000 as a deposit, was ready to sign a contract to pay the remainder. If the paper is sold to Portsmouth Steel, it will immediately sell it to the employees, collect when the bond & stock...
...post was established in 1912 as a result of a gift donated by industrialist and financier Edmund C. Converse. He was president of the Liberty National Bank, the Banker's Trust Company, and the Aster Trust Company...
Maria Callas is married to an Italian industrialist and considers Italy her home. She would like to come to the Met, which has made her offers, but only for the right money and the right operas-her La Scala hit, I Puritani, for instance. Says she: "I don't gamble in my singing. If an opera is good for me, I know...
...seen the practical value of the new concept, or has accepted it. Some bitterenders still regard any concession to the workers as a threat to their own authority. Others sometimes do more harm than good by doling out favors with an air of paternalism. Said one Kansas City industrialist: "We give our employees a Christmas party and that keeps 'em happy until we throw 'em a summer picnic." Still others have made the mistake of trying to create good human relations by mere words...
Died. Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, 67,chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federation, shrewd, Scottish-born industrialist who was Winston Churchill's Minister of Supply throughout most of World War II; of heart disease; in London...