Word: pierpont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Pierpont Morgan returned to Paris and the Second Dawes committee last week, having shaken off a cold by cruising the Adriatic in his black yacht Corsair with the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April...
...these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work...
...espied a slim black object floating on the water beneath them. On closer scrutiny they might have noticed that it was not so slim, that it was a black, ochre-funneled yacht named the Corsair. And if they followed it they would have noticed that the yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan seemed to have no set destination, that it was just "cruising" in the Mediterranean...
Pallbearers for Ambassador Herrick were six, including besides the three Orateurs Funèbres, Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
...Fatherland on the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan and decide how much Germany must eventually pay in reparations. Last week the "Iron Man" found himself deadlocked with the delegates of the Great Powers, who include John Pierpont Morgan. Result: Dr. Schacht, who fears not even Wall Street, expressed himself to correspondents with concentrated, guttural vehemence, thus...