Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hague and to Berlin ("Most valuable public character we have abroad," said George Washington). His great-great-grandfather was John, second U. S. President, first occupant of the White House, husband of delightful Abigail Smith. Mr. Adams's daughter, Catherine, married Henry S., son of J. Pierpont Morgan...
When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...Myron C. Taylor was given last week credit for finishing what the late great John Pierpont Morgan began. Mr. "Taylor, brilliant chairman of the finance committee of U. S. Steel, announced that, at their annual meeting on April 15, stockholders would be asked to approve an increase in authorized common stock from some 7,500,000 to 12,500,000, thereby potentially capitalizing the company at $1,250,000,000. From new stock to be issued at terms to be fixed, cash will be received to redeem all the bonds of the parent company. Thus Steel common becomes "as good...
...until "Jack" had worked 15 years in London was he allowed to graduate into the Manhattan House of Morgan as "J. Pierpont" in 1905. Nothing proves more conclusively that the fiscal centre of the world has shifted since then from London to New York than the fact that "J. Pierpont's" two sons have served their apprenticeship in Wall Street. The elder, Junius Spencer (called "Junior"), is now one of the most potent Morgan partners; but the younger, Henry Sturges ("Harry"), who started as a messenger boy at 23 Wall, has only just been taken into partnership...
During the panic (1907), 40-year-old "J. Pierpont" acted as chief-of-staff to his doughty sire. After the death of "J. P." in 1913, "J. Pierpont" signalized his ascension by a bold decision: namely that he and his partners would withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...