Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across her desk, takes out her charts, asks them a few simple questions on dates, and in several minutes tells them what they are and what would be well for them to do. She has been consulted by Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Eva Le Gallienne, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Cardinal James Gibbons,* John Burroughs, Lillian Russell, Tallulah Bankhead, Seymour Cromwell (onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange), many a Wall Street man and Tammany Hall politician, Philip Payne (onetime editor of the New York Daily Mirror, whom Evangeline Adams warned against flying in the ill-fated Old Glory...
...Wilton, N. H., in 1872, educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Abbot has been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1895. Able scientists who preceded Dr. Abbot as Secretary of the Smithsonian were: Joseph Henry, who like famed Faraday, worked in early electrical experiments; Spencer Fullerton Baird, naturalist; Samuel Pierpont Langley, father of aerodynamics, whom Dr. Abbot assisted in solar work; Charles Doolittle Walcott, geologist...
Elected. John Pierpont Morgan, to be chairman of board the United States Steel Corporation...
...Pierpont Morgan takes Judge Gary's place as chairman of the United States Steel board of directors. That will please stockholders. Mr. Morgan's father created the company, with the assistance of Judge Gary, James A. Farrell* and other able citizens, and changed a half a billion worth of stock that Carnegie called 'not even water, mere air' into stock, now worth more than $220 a share, the 40 per cent dividend included...
...Manhattan, the house of Morgan did not give out to the press a cablegram despatched, last week, from John Pierpont (Morgan to Benito Mussolini. When cabled back from Rome at press rates it read suavely...