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...founded in 1829 and bought by Colonel James Elverson 60 years later. Colonel Elverson's daughter, an international belle, married French Ambassador Jules Paternõtre in the 1890's, inherited the Inquirer at her brother's death in 1929, sold it within a year to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and his stepson-in-law John C. Martin for part cash, part credit...
Basing his work on Sir Edward Creasy's original book, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, which ends with Waterloo; Artist Johnson added Babylon, Crecy, Gettysburg, the First Marne; introduced such characters as Richard Coeur de Lion, Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella. Cyrus of the Persians besieges Babylon (538 B. C.) At Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts...
...Died. Cyrus Hall McCormick, 77, Chicago philanthropist, successor of his father as head of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in 1884, successively president and board chairman of International Harvester Co. from 1902 until his retirement in 1935; of heart disease; in Lake Forest...
Henry B. Sawyer, Jr. '36, baseball manager and former chairman of the Entertainment Committee, was head usher. Assisting him as ushers were John L. Clark '36, Richard S. Keene '38, Arthur Notman, Jr. '37, Robert W. Snyder '38, Archer P. W. Trench '37, and Cyrus C. Wells...
Into the Federal District Court in Cleveland last week marched SEC attorneys, charging Otis & Co., among other things, with having rigged the market in the stock of Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. For Cyrus Eaton's Cleveland banking firm, which is trying with some success to stage a comeback from its Depression deflation, the SEC suit was vastly annoying. If SEC succeeds in building up a case against the firm, it will be on technicalities, since Otis customers have made money in Murray stock. Most of the stock was bought from large Murray shareholders, distributed to Otis customers at from...