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...panic of 1907 showed his mettle. In those steep days the elder J. P. Morgan discovered two young bankers on whom he could rely: Henry Pomeroy Davison and Albert Henry Wiggin. Morgan's friend, old George Fisher Baker, agreed that they were mighty useful fellows. Davison, as the world knows, was received into the Morgan fold. Wiggin acquired a rarer distinction. True or false, legend in New York calls him the only man who ever refused a Morgan partnership...
John Rockefeller Prentice, the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller who worked his way through Yale as a telephone operator and is now a student at Yale's law school, wanted a swim. He and a crony who works for an undertaker went to Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...
Died. Dr. Davison McDowell Douglas, 62, president of the University of South Carolina since 1927; of apoplexy; in Columbia...
...John Davison joined early but never attends meetings. He has sent busses to convey one district of R. F. A. membership to a picnic on his Pocantico Hills estate, absenting himself the while. Last year, when twelve persons qualified for a badge signifying 25 years of membership, John Davison, who has paid his dues several years in advance, was sent a special Rockefeller coat-of-arms (leaves, rocks, horns of plenty quartered) signifying the sole life-membership...