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William Gibbs McAdoo: "Last week in Los Angeles before the Pacific Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, I said: 'There is no office I want less than that of President of the United States. . . Let me tell you that these things are convictions that I have, and I don't care a continental if they destroy me politically and physically. I put righteousness ahead of politics always...
Gambling was an aspect of Frick's adventuresomeness. He speculated in stocks and boldly used his inside, forehanded knowledge culled from directors' meetings in which he sat. At early meetings of U. S. Steel Corp. directors, Judge Gary, Methodist, often caught Frick matching $20 gold pieces with fellow directors-Henry H. Rogers, N. B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener. The Judge made them stop their games...
Some seven years have passed now since Augustus D. Juilliard, Manhattan financier, died and left the largest bequest to music ever recorded-the Julliard Foundation. In the summer of 1920 the trustees, businessmen all, announced the appointment of Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, Methodist minister, as executive secretary. Last week the Juilliard Foundation was called to account on the basis of its limited accomplishments for the first five years of its existence in proportion to its resources now known to be more than $13,000,000. It was charged with never having obtained a New York State charter, of acting nevertheless...
...Dempsey, 4% in.; the young woman, 4% in. tHer father, Aiji Koike, sound Methodist, manufactures glass in Tokyo
...base of all permanent business success- they go together. In the long run, every business question, every public question must be settled by what is right and what is wrong," he once declared. These business ideas, fantastic in their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which he organized...