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...Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, he was in the Morgan offices when a bomb explosion rocked the building in 1920, was gashed by flying glass. At No. 1060 Fifth Avenue he owned one of the world's largest private apartments (45 rooms. 22 baths), lived there alone after his wife's death...
...still had the incompleted task of investigating the nations bankers with the aid of the committee's diligent counsel. Mr. Pecora. Of Mr. Fletcher's colleagues, Senator Glass had gone home and Senator Couzens to London. The committee was thereby relieved of two members who, when John Pierpont Morgan was on the stand, more than once took the direction of the inquiry into their own hands. Senator Fletcher insisted upon going on without them. Never in his long political career had he been privileged, uninterrupted, to do so outstanding a public service. Last week in the course...
...only tin plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made by steel companies and most tin plate is used by can companies. For American Can is no longer a trust but merely the biggest concern in a competitive field. Thus the present...
Sideshow. Still spotlighted throughout the investigation's second week was big-bodied John Pierpont Morgan, though he was not again called to the witness stand. Hour after hour he sat to one side in a spindly little chair watching the proceedings. Clustered about him were his partners. Not a day passed but the country was told the pattern of his suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors...
Twenty years ago another Manhattan lawyer faced another Morgan at another Congressional show not unlike last week's. Then it was Samuel Untermyer (75 last week) v. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. Minnesota's Representative Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose son later married the daughter of a Morgan partner, had called for an inquiry into the "Money Trust." Chairman Arsene Pujo of the House Banking & Currency Committee set the stage. The first day the elder Morgan spent 17 minutes on the witness stand and was so upset by Inquisitor Untermyer that he could not name his ten partners. The second...