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...Spencer Morgan Jr. and Walter Sherman Gifford. Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. is named for his great-grandfather, the Junius Spencer Morgan who in 1854 left the Boston dry goods field to become a partner in the London bank of George Peabody & Co. It was this Junius Spencer Morgan (not John Pierpont Morgan I) who originated the famed remark that "Any one who sells a bear on the United States will go broke." The present Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. was graduated from Harvard in 1914, is a Morgan partner, a director of General Motors, grandson of the late great John Pierpont...
...When John Pierpont Morgan was made chairman of the U. S. Steel Board, in December, 1927, following Judge Gary's death, in August 1927, he was the leading figure in a triumvirate which controlled U. S. Steel...
Engaged. Almira G. Rockefeller, only daughter of the late William G. Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, recent debutante, of Manhattan & Greenwich, Conn.; to M. Roy Jackson, able huntsman, widower, father of two married daughters...
Elected. Walter Sherman Gifford. President of the American Tel. & Tel. Co.. and Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., son of John Pierpont Morgan; to be Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp., succeeding the late William Pendleton Palmer, onetime President of the American Steel & Wire Co., and John Shaffer Phipps...
...Died. John Hartley Manners, 58, famed playwright (Peg o' My Heart), husband of Actress Laurette Taylor, onetime leading man for famed Actress Lily Langtry, of Manhattan; after an operation; in Manhattan...