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Another of the President's fishing friends was a distant cousin. Kermit Roosevelt, son of T. R., friend and partner of Vincent Astor in the shipping business. The rest were, with two exceptions, socialites: William Rhinelander Stewart, Mr. Astor's best friend; Lyle Hull who last spring was Mr. Stewart's bicycling companion in Bermuda; George St. George, young, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, English-bred member of Tuxedo's horsy set. Mrs. George St. George was the onetime Katharine Price Collier, stepsister of the President's cousin Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada...
Most famed financial address in the U. S. is No. 23 Wall St., the House of Morgan. Next in fame is No. 52 William St., the House of Kuhn, Loeb. Built eleven years after a Kuhn, Loeb senior partner, Otto Hermann Kahn, arrived in the U. S. from his German birthplace by way of England, No. 52 houses the great banking firm in only four of its 20 floors. There in his day, shrewd old Jacob Schiff reorganized the big Kuhn, Loeb railroads: Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...most of his friends at lawn tennis, he belongs to the New York Racquet Club, plays court-tennis there and at the $250,000 court which Payne Whitney built at Manhasset and on which Payne Whitney died in 1927. Ogden Phipps's grandfather was Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps...
...Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst in and introduced himself as a salesman of French cars. Each...
...raucous battles of the market place. Occasionally they had backed opposing forces but always with the fine disinterestedness of a French munitions maker. More often than not they acted in harmony to keep the peace. The present head of the House of Schiff was a Kuhn, Loeb partner when he inherited his father's 13% interest. This interest is smaller than that of his uncle, Felix Warburg (18%), or of Otto Kahn (14%). But in capital contributed he stands first with $6.500,000. John Schiff also inherits the bigger share of his father's fortune, estimated...