Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...
...this point a door opened and through it strode a tall, heavy man of magnificent carriage, instantly recognizable as John Pierpont Morgan. He was smoking a comfortably big meerschaum pipe, but his visage was not benign. He spoke: "This is an infernal outrage. . . . You fellows get along...
...John Pierpont Morgan...
...eyes of many a businessman are the reports of the mighty U. S. Steel Corp., now ending its first full year under committee management. As everyone knows, the mantle of the late, great Elbert H. Gary was rent into three parts. The first part fell on John Pierpont Morgan as Chairman of the Board; the second on Myron Charles Taylor as Chairman of the Finance Committee; the third on James Augustine Farrell as President. Last week, this triumvirate of tycoons announced quarterly earnings of $52,148,476, largest in two years and $10,774,645 more than earnings...
...John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...