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...Devil's Due. By & large Senator Nye's Committee, during its first week's effort, was not very successful in rewriting U. S. War history. Partner Lamont lately declared: "Like most of our contemporaries and friends and neighbors, we wanted the Allies to win from the outset of the War. We were pro-Ally by inheritance, by instinct, by opinion." But no evidence was adduced last week that the House of Morgan, for all its pro-Ally, sympathies, created the Allied demand for U. S. goods. And if J. P. Morgan & Co. indulged in secret skulduggery...
...have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first...
...Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited to put up $500,000 to found a University Professorship. Last week Thomas William Lament, No. 2 partner and traditional spokesman of J. P. Morgan & Co., proved himself a very rich Harvardman. To Dr. Conant he wrote: "I am glad to give . . . $500,000 as a foundation for one of the University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this...
...returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention of the U. S. Secretary of State. The Cuban Boxing Commission suspended Promoter Jacobs for six months, fined him $500. Havana Promoter Samuel Tolon, who was to have been his partner, promised to sue Promoter Jacobs...
...lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat in the House, makes valuable new contacts...