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...years. Deep and abiding was the impression made by the elder Mitchell on U. S. finance. Himself the son of a banker, he became a power not only in Chicago but in Manhattan's Wall Street. His counsel guided such tycoons as George M. Pullman (Pullman cars) and Cyrus H. McCormick (International Harvester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah Burton of Cleveland (Republican) and U.S. Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey and Burton are famed votegetters in their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath of the Hoover-Willis fight for Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Primaries | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Embarrassed citizens of the U. S. hoped that Satevepost Owner Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who has a butler, will send him buttling 'round to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer whose butler, if any, was thus shamefully exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Buttling Needed | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 22, has a summer job as assistant in the information bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland. Duties: to answer questions of U. S. tourists. Salary: about $40 a week. Last summer the job was held by William Curtis Bok, grandson of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Grandson Rockefeller will be a senior at Princeton University, in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

From Philadelphia came the broadside of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher of the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Satevepost. Publisher Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Publishers Fume | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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