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...Fore River, Mass., J. Pierpont...
...calibre folk the Weyerhaeusers are. But in that vast quarter of the Union from St. Paul to Seattle the name needed no exposition. There the abduction of George, great-grandson of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, caused the same kind of sensation the East would feel if Miles, great-grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, were snatched. For the Weyerhaeusers are the royal family of the U.S. lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country's best timberland supporting 94 Weyerhaeuser-operated or affiliated corporations which gross $20,000,000 a year...
When John Pierpont Morgan I, pacing his office at No. 23 Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
Author Loening stoutly defends Orville Wright in the famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...
Month ago it was announced that J. Pierpont Morgan had sold six of his father's most valuable paintings (TIME, Feb. 11). The proceeds were to be used some day by Banker Morgan's executors to pay for the transfer of his estate to his heirs. Last week came another announcement: in May or June 900 gem-studded Morgan miniatures on ivory, valued at $600,000, will go on sale at Christie's in London...