Word: owen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations...
Divorced. Clare Briggs of Manhattan, newspaper cartoonist (The Days o/ Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N.Y., on testimony that Cartoonist Briggs had been in residence with a pseudo Mrs. Briggs. The Briggses were married in 1900, have three children...
Arrangements have been made to accommodate 600, and a varied program of entertainment will be provided. Among the speakers for the evening will be George Owen '23, famous nine-letter Harvard athlete, now playing with the Boston Bruins. An orchestra is being secured, and there will be various specialty acts by well-known entertainers. Appropriate souvenirs have been purchased and will be distributed to all who attend. Among the amusements offered will be a motion picture, which is yet to be selected, but which will, it is hoped, come up to last year's standard...
Nothing indicated with any certainty last week that this sensible suggestion would be adopted. The U. S. Delegates, Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, and J. P. Morgan took no part in the subcommittee wrangle...
...death of "J. P." in 1913, "J. Pierpont" signalized his ascension by a bold decision: namely that he and his partners would withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...