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...York Evening Post, ancient landmark of the U. S. publishing panorama, approached the end of its first year under the mastery of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. It had been a year such as the Post never knew before?a year of the grand manner...
...Cyrus E. Woods, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan (in a letter) : "The Japanese Exclusion Act was an international disaster of the first magnitude...
...Zoroastrians named in the Bible are Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes. The prophet Isaiah speaks of Cyrus as he "anointed" of the Lord. The three "wise men" who came to adore the Child Jesus are supposed to have been Zoroastrians...
Others noted that in the first lists which the Times published, the name of Mr. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the Post's owner, was also "carefully concealed," doubtless for the same reason that Mr. Ochs' was?temporary unavailability. Next day the Times published the tax of Adolph S. Ochs...
...Mitchell Trophy race. Eleven army pilots competed for the latter, flying Curtiss PW-8 planes with 480-horse engines. They went in a roaring bunch around the triangular course, flirting about the turns so closely that one man's wingtip severed a guy wire supporting a pylon. Lieut. Cyrus Betts, winner, made 175.43 m.p.h. for the 124.27 miles raced...