Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venetian palace, surrounded by rare, beautiful and very precious treasures of Art−a collection estimated second only to that of John Pierpont Morgan−Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston died at the age of 85. Fenway Court is one of the most glorious monuments to American wealth. Its marble Renaissance doorway opens to the public a few days each year. Virtually all of the stones in the structure were brought from Venice. Around the central court are balconies brought from the Ca' d'Oro, the most beautiful Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The pavement...
...Pierpont L. Stackpole '97, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War for the First Corps; Area, is also chairman of the Military Training Camps Association of New England. The State chairman of the Association is John W. Farley...
...politics, or rather as a citizen, for he has never been in politics, he is a Republican. In regard to confirming his nomination, two political considerations came before the Senate. His former law partner, Herbert L. Satterlee, married a daughter of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. This consideration weighed against Dean Stone with Progressives. But against it was another consideration which weighed equally heavily: during the days of the late War, when Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was hot on the trail of Reds, Mr. Stone wrote a letter to a subcommittee of the Senate which was investigating those raids...
...memorial to my father, the late J. Pierpont Morgan, and for the use of scholars I have conveyed the library created by him, its contents and the land upon which it stands, to a board of trustees, together with an endowment sufficient for its permanent maintenance. It has been designated as the Pierpont Morgan Library and its character and purpose are set forth by my letter to the trustees, and by extracts from the deed of conveyance, copies of which are attached to this statement...
...extracts from the deed of conveyance the Pierpont Morgan Library is described as "A public library, for reference only, without any circulation or withdrawal privileges ... to encourage and develop study and research and generally to conduct an institution of educational value to the public." The general public is excluded, however, and only that part of it who are students, "persons engaged in the work of research" and those interested in literature and kindred subjects are to be admitted "under suitable rules and regulations...