Cyrus Stephen Eaton made no headlines last week. No one called him "Cyrus the Great." (Admiring Clevelanders used to call him that.) No one described him as a "ruthless Napoleon." (Newton D. Baker once described him thus.) Greying at the temples but still in his early 50'S, apparently Cyrus Eaton was going inconspicuously about his personal business in a one-room office at Otis & Co. in Cleveland.
Some newspapers carried a small item about the receiver of Continental Shares, Inc. filing a settlement proposal for $16,000,000 of claims....
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