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...have not had to swallow a few times already you probably will during the final scene in which father and son get acquainted for the first time over an inn table, find that they have a great deal in common, both loathing the same woman...
...John Pierpont Morgan who died in Rome before the War was descended from a line of wealthy New England traders. His grandfather, Joseph Morgan, had kept an inn and had been a pioneer in the extremely lucrative insurance business of Hartford, Conn. John Pierpont Morgan went to New York as a private banker. In 1894 he took partners forming the present firm. In the following years, as everyone knows, he performed dazzling feats of finance on a scale unprecedented. These included the formation of U. S. Steel and many another of the greatest corporations which have made a large part...
...feeble-looking man with close-cropped grey hair shuffled up to the proprietor of the Old Orchard Inn at Roslyn, L. I., one evening last week. "I want an inexpensive room." he said. "I can't afford to pay very much...
Outside the inn, the taxi which had brought the old man from nearby Locust Valley rattled away hesitatingly. The driver was wondering where he had seen his passenger before. Was it in Locust Valley? Was it in the newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where...
Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...