Word: pierpont
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...predecessors did not seal up their choices, but we can still benefit by their wisdom and turn our attention to the leaders of the past. This June the world should hear again the names of those chosen in 1910: Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Leonard Livermore, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, John Pierpont Morgan, Sir John Murray, Horace Porter, George Walter Prothero, Theodore William Richards, Theobald Smith, John Eliot Thayer, Samuel Williston, Robert Archey Woods. James A. Sharaf...
Nothing better symbolizes the change in bankers than the differences between Morgan Guaranty's Alexander and John Pierpont Morgan, the founder of the House of Morgan. Where Morgan was gruff and autocratic, with a fierce glare that could wither a man at 30 paces. Alexander is relaxed, cordial, full of a dry wit. He speaks with a Tennessee drawi. talks about mules as easily as about the national debt. While J. P. Morgan roamed the world in his 302-ft. yacht Corsair, Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan...
Power & Ruthlessness. The history of the House of Morgan is almost the story of U.S. banking. Founder J. Pierpont Morgan was a great builder and dreamer who helped build the U.S.-and grew so powerful that he helped run it. Morgan left his father's London banking firm at 20 to try his own luck on Wall Street. After acting as agent for his father's firm, he went into business for himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks...
...from One. Though other banks have outstripped J. P. Morgan & Co. in total deposits, it has never lost the patrician air of leadership it gained virtually at its founding in 1862. It still does what the elder J. Pierpont Morgan called "only a first-class business and that in a first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn...
...Pierpont Morgan bought more than $60 million worth of art in the 20 years before his death in 1913, but he was no spendthrift. The same collection today might well command ten times what he paid for it. His Renaissance library is now one of Manhattan's handsomest small museums. Author Saarinen calls the place (36th Street and Madison Avenue) "restrained, not opulent; exquisite, not ostentatious. The East Room is regal with lapis lazuli columns flanking the fireplace and with a Flemish 16th century tapestry above it. What unconscious impulse of guilt or pride determined the choice of this...