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...Governor Smith of New York announced a plan for formation of a crime commission to bring the methods of preventing and punishing crime up to date. But more than a local effort was the aim of the meeting. F. Trubee Davison, son of the late Henry P. Davison (Morgan partner and head of the American Red Cross during the War), was appointed to call another meeting to gather together prominent men from many states in order to start a National Commission. Thus was a movement initiated...
...pardon?" asked the opponent on his left, one Neutz, who had been waiting for Broker Donahue's bid. "One diamond," whispered Donahue. "Three spades," said Neutz. "Four diamonds," said Donahue, "five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded a diamond; he had held 13 of them, a perfect hand-many times rarer than a hole in one at golf. The stupidity of his initial bid robbed him of a chance...
...from the view of the thousands of spectators that jostled in the rough and back of the bunkers. Picking his way from the tee, his mashie still in his hand, J. H. Taylor, five times (1894, '95, 1900, '09, '13) British Open Champion, came to 'the green, watched his partner putt," received the snowy ball?holed in one? from his middle-aged caddy, whose grin was to say: "Aye, a bonny shot. An ye'll be gi'en me a bottle o' whuskey the nicht...
Dwight W. Morrow, Morgan partner LL.D...
...Thomas W. Lamont was well up in the financial profession. Two years later, he became a partner of J. P. Morgan. But the gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days. The Nation was still a "little American," a Mugwump, a champion of "intellectual minorities" rather than an assailant of "the predatory interests." Thomas W. Lamont, banker, and Hammond Lamont, editor, were not the poles apart that "Wall Street" and The Nation have since become...