Word: myron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Percentage gains over March 1933 were, of course, exaggerated by the abnormally low state of trade during the banking moratorium. Nevertheless, for the first time since the New Deal John Businessman last week found his own affairs more engrossing than the Government's. Chairman Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel, having just averted trouble in his own house (see p. 17), told his stockholders that "in contrast with the uncertainties of a year ago, we have every reason to believe we have passed through the most difficult period of our adversities and we now face the future with confidence...
...Myron C. Taylor (U. S. Steel...
...hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story...
...real interest of the book, however, lies not in the ups and downs of Myron Weagle, but in the setting, the vast panorama of American hospitality in 1897 down to the present day. Mr. Lewis has studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject...
When he writes of the fortuitous tragedy that wrecked Myron's inn. Author Sinclair reports it as he thinks TIME would have...