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...boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption of razor blades is nil is Arthur Curtiss James, capitalist and yachtsman...
Mortimer Leo Schiff is the only "son"?Jacob Henry Schiff's?and he is the youngest (born 1877) of the present four partners. Like President Coolidge, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank Waterman Stearns, Herbert Lee Pratt, Bruce Barton, Alexander Meiklejohn, the late Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left...
Recently Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have revived their interests in the railroads of the northwest. They represented the buyers, at auction, of the $750,000,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (TIME, Dec. 6) and have been one of the agents for Arthur Curtiss James, greatest railroad stockholder, in his gaining control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific...
...Arthur Curtiss James, wife of the largest holder of U. S. railway stocks (TIME, Jan. 24): "Back in Manhattan after a five-weeks' countrywide tour in behalf of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A., of which I am chairman, I declared that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This...
...will behind this consolidation is that of Arthur Curtiss James, largest owner of railroad securities in this country. He dominates, but does not control, affairs of Northern Pacific, of Great Northern and of Burlington...