Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...very soon appeared that this informal group was the inner banking circle of the committee-for with Mr. Morgan and Lord Revelstoke sit Dr. Carl Melchior, partner in Germany's great house of Warburg, Belgian Tycoon Emile Francqui, and Economist Antonio Suvitch, personal representative of Benito Mussolini...
...mere announcement that this informal group exists stirred up such a news flurry that the tycoons, cautious, kept their intentions secret for most of another week, while news-starved correspondents were fed titbit after titbit about what the group was preparing to do. Meanwhile Mr. Morgan ran over to London, as he said, "for a cup of tea"; and various other delegates paid flying visits to their homes. When everyone had gotten back from wherever he had gone...
Baron Revelstoke appeared as rapporteur for his informal group before a secret session of the second Dawes Committee and made an oral statement* understood to be in substance...
Approximately 100 original drawings by Walter Crane which were used for the illustrations in two of his books have recently been given to the Treasure Room of Widener Library by A. H. Parker '97. These drawings are supplementary to a group of books and pictures by Crane and by Caldecott that Mr. Parker gave to the University last fall...