SECURITIES: Eaton Meddles

Cleveland's maverick financier Cyrus (formerly "the Great") Eaton has friends and enemies on both sides of many a street, including Wall. A power there until the early '30s, he has won most of his subsequent newspaper clippings by front-running for the U. S.'s No. 1 anti-Wall Street financier, Chicago's pro-competitive-bidding Halsey, Stuart & Co. More recently, via the mails and letters-to-the-editor, he has offered intellectual aid to both Presidential candidates. As a Willkie-man he suggested that the New Deal is vulnerable for having made Big Business bigger, at the expense of Small....

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