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...Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
Margaret Halstead's début aroused more curiosity than the others. Few operagoers had heard of her until the Metropolitan announced a few weeks ago that it had engaged her. Then it became generally known that she was a protegee of Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. that her grandfather was Murat Halstead. Cincinnati journalist famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren...
John Daniel Hertz, who moved last year from Chicago where he was interested in theatres and taxicabs to Manhattan, where he serves as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee, was elected to the board of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, together with Lawyer Carl August de Gersdorff of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine 8 Wood. They succeeded Bernard Mannes Baruch and the late Paul Moritz Warburg...
...angry cry against him. To G. 0. Partisans, it looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person might have been the model for Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's personification of the G. O. P., was sure all decent lawyers would "resent" the statement. President Hoover at Indianapolis thundered...