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...biography of Owen D. Young (see p. 51), Authoress Ida Minerva Tarbell relates how he arranged a meeting of John Pierpont Morgan and Belgian Banker Emile Francqui during the Young Plan conferences. Next day Banker Young asked the Belgian how the meeting went. Said M. Francqui: "Fine, Owen Young. I say wow-wow to Mr. Morgan, Mr. Morgan say wow-wow to me, and we go home...
OWEN D. YOUNG-Ida M. Tarbell- Macmillan...
Biographer Ida Minerva Tarbell's concern with business ethics dates from way back yonder, when oil was discovered in her native Pennsylvania hills. Her family cleared out of the way of the oil tycoons' sent Ida to Allegheny College. She worked with Chautauqua for eight years, then went off to Paris to study French methods of writing biography. Her work attracted Editor Samuel Sidney McClure then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from...
There is always at least one moment of ridiculous melodrama in the Show. This came last week when the Countess Ida Marie von Claussen, who once challenged President Roosevelt to a duel, hurled a red ribbon at Judge Walter J. Graham. She considered that her toy poodle. Caprice, had been insulted by not getting the blue...
Last month racial feeling reached fever heat when a score of whites snatched Horace Ida off the streets of Honolulu, drove him out to Pali, soundly beat him after threatening to throw him to death off the cliff. Ida claimed but could not prove that U. S. sailors were responsible...