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Placing either first or second in all three events, the entries from Winthrop House carried off the honors in the House sculling regatta held Monday afternoon. In the wherry race, Frederick E. Lawton '36 took first place in four minutes, 33 seconds. Harlan T. Pierpont, Jr. '3', rowing for Dunster, won the compromise race, outrowing Dana C. Wrightington '36, a Puritan man, in three minutes, 51 seconds. And David F. Rogers '35, also of Winthrop House, placed first in the singles race in three minutes, 39 seconds, with John L. Ward '34, from Kirkland House, taking second...
Back from his annual vacation in the British Isles, John Pierpont Morgan received reporters and cameramen in his ship cabin, exhibited the new affability he acquired at the Senate Banking Committee Inquiry in Washington last Spring. Said he: "I was told when I left England that if I saw you men and posed for the photographers it would be a matter of only a few minutes and then everything would be all right. I believe now that it is true since I have done these things here. Yet I don't like it." Most of the newshawks' questions...
...unincorporated association like the Big Board. President Whitney and all officials of the New York Stock Exchange promptly accepted similar positions in the New Jersey Exchange, thus branding it as official. Of the Big Board's 1,375 members all but 97 (chiefly inactive members like J. Pierpont Morgan and his son Junius) had applied for Jersey membership before the end of the week. Vice President Allan L. Lindley solemnly posted a notice on the New York floor that his firm's main office was now his home in Englewood...
...Pierpont Morgan, the world banker, whose hobby, my little readers, is gardening but who also loves midgets, money and other 'm' words, like muchness." Thus did Vanity Fair in its current number dedicate "Vanity Fair's Own Paper Dolls," a new one-page feature. In the centre of the page was a drawing of Mr. Morgan in underclothes (see cut). In the four corners were costume patterns to fit Mr. Morgan's moods. One was a tattered brown suit, patched with green and purple, which hung loosely on a headless figure holding in his hands...
Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, President Roosevelt, Senator James Couzens, the banks' officials, the Depression and J. Pierpont Morgan have all, individually and in sundry paradoxical combinations, been blamed for Detroit's banking troubles (TIME, Aug. 28 et ante). Last week Detroit was amazed to hear that a highly successful 18th Century London stockbroker whose father was a Dutch Jew was really responsible...