Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, retired member of J. P. Morgan and Co., executor of the will of the late Mr. Morgan, to Mrs. Theodosia S. Carlin, of Montecito, Calif., at Montecito. Simultaneously it became known that Mr. Hamilton and his first wife, Juliet P. Morgan, daughter of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, had been divorced in December by decree of the Nevada State Courts...
...John Pierpont Morgan: "I returned from a trip abroad. At the pier reporters besieged me. They told me that George F. Baker, recently arrived from Europe, had been publicly optimistic about world condition, urged me for my views. Said I: 'No one can question his opinion, and since you have his you don't need mine...
...John Pierpont Morgan: "Some time ago Mrs. Morgan and I visited the Thistle Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Giles, Edinburgh. We were so impressed by the art of the woodcarver, Sir Robert S. Lorimer, that we asked him to do the woodwork for our little church, St. John's, near Locust Valley, L. I. This Church has seen many pretty ceremonier. While the new woodwork is being installed services are being held in a garage on the estate of William D. Guthrie...
...ceremony; they signed the register with trembling hands. In Detroit, Mrs. Jennie P. Frazer* was married to Smith V. Fish in the presence of her three-year-old great-grandchild. In Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington...
...recent announcement of committee appointments made by the Board of Overseers. The Board appointed 51 committees, of which many members are of national prominence, such as: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Bishop Charles H. Brent, Hon. '13, Theodore Roosevelt '09, Owen Wister '82, John Hays Hammond, J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Dwight F. Davis '00, Julian W. Mack, L. '87, and Eliot Wadsworth...