Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Chief Justice Taft, descriptive: "The Langley Medal was established in memory of the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. During the last 15 years of his life Dr. Langley's primary interest was in making possible man's flight...
...appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius N. Bliss Jr., Robert S. Brewster and De Lancey Kountze?was chosen to investigate other possible locations. Fifth Avenue was suggested, also Park, Bryant Park in back of the Library and Central Park South. But the associations governing these sites are opposed. A new opera house, it seems...
...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
...given the great sum? John Davison Rockefeller Jr., John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne (lawyer, onetime of Chicago, now of Manhattan) and the Carnegie Corporation had already donated money for similar, although piecemeal excavations in Greece. Certainly Mr. Woods,* although rich, had no millions to give away. But he would not say. Professor Capps said only: "I do not know who the donor is. I might guess, but I might be wrong...
When he had first gone to Minneapolis, from St. Andrew's Memorial Church, Yonkers, N. Y., his good friend the late John Pierpont Morgan,* said to him: " You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll stay, I predict, no more than six months in Minneapolis." He stayed from...