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...founded, Mr. Filbert was already marshalling facts & figures in one of the component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither Social Register nor Who's Who, he has been sitting on Steel's directorate since 1919 as the equal of such men as Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan, Sewell Lee Avery, Walter Gifford, George Fisher Baker, Thomas W. Lament. He will continue to sit there after he starts drawing his pension...
...back and a few frank words. A cloud gathered at the panic of 1907, soon disappeared. "Oh, but we had a stern captain in 1907; it was during those days of strain that I discovered for myself what an admirable intelligence gleamed through the fierce eyes of J. Pierpont Morgan.'' More trouble threatened during the War. when National City plans for financing a French loan collided with the plans of the House of Morgan. A frank talk, a slap on the back and this misunderstanding was clarified. Only William Rockefeller, whose "velvety politeness . . . marked a character accustomed...
Elliot H. Goodwin '39, John R. Handy '39, Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, Lawrence S. Johnson '39, Lawrence M. Keeler '36, Francis R. King '39, Neil G. Melone '37, Leonard K. Nash '39, Richard Norman '37, Gardiner Pier '36, William S. Pier '38, John H. Pierpont '39, Ben Pitman, Jr. '39, Robert D. Proctor '38, Tudor Richards '38, Harvey M. Ross...
After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...
...Christie's London auction rooms J. Pierpont Morgan's vast collection of miniatures was sold, in line with his program of getting his estate into the most liquid position possible before his death. Assembled abroad by his father, the 795 tiny, jeweled pictures were bought mainly by European dealers and collectors for $349,285, about two-thirds of what the elder Morgan is supposed to have paid for the collection...