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...deals--among others the formation of U. S. Steel and the attempts to meet the 1907 panic among others--guided by the powerful hand of Pierpont Morgan. Through this description of Morgan's character in action, the reader discovers the nature of the financial world of the times, its temper and its spirit...
...last week, after months of persevering work, eight suit-rumpling, eye-opening trips into the dusty hinterland, a steadily growing acquaintance with the Italian temper and background, Zellerbach felt that it was all a lot bigger job than anyone had realized at the start. The business proposition was also a proposition in national and human subtleties. With larger perspective but undiminished determination, Zellerbach said: "It's more of a challenge than ever." Italian ministers were more mellow, too. They were thinking less in political and regional and more in overall economic terms. They were leaning on Zellerbach for counsel...
...Whipple advised his fellow surgeons to avoid temper tantrums and "excessive showmanship." Said he: "Too often the ability of a surgeon is compromised by his temper exposed in the operating room, and he becomes his own worst handicap . . . His prayer should be, 'Give me skill with humility, and prevent me from becoming a prima donna...
...Frank L. Howley, hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector. On New Year's Day, two or three U.S. officials telephoned their Russian opposite numbers to wish them a prosperous New Year. When he heard of this incident last week, Howley's quick-triggered temper exploded...
Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...