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Secretary of the Treasury Mills ($25,000), Ambassador Mellon ($25,000), Eldridge Reeves Johnson ($25,000), Edward F. Hutton ($20,000), Harvey Samuel Firestone ($12,500), Mrs. Andrew Carnegie ($10,000), Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ($10,000), Harrison Williams ($10.000). John Pierpont Morgan ($5,000), Walter Clark Teagle ($2,500), Walter P. Chrysler ($1,000), William H. Vanderbilt...
During the War he repeatedly warned England that the conflict would last a long time. The Allies sent him as head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission to get a small loan from John Pierpont Morgan. The story goes that in the latter's library Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request...
...medium he is requested by a banker to ask the late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
...Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and J. deB. Bertolet '35 of Reading, Pennsylvania to the Literary Board; Vincent Palmer '35 of Milton and W. H. Lewis, Jr. '35 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey to the Art Board; and R. B. Murray '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35 of Worcester, and W. G. Barker, 2d '35 of Brookline to the Business Board...
Considerable strength is also counted upon from the Freshman team of a year ago, which included E. F. Bowditch '35, N. M. Goodhue '35, A. S. Pier, Jr. '35, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35, W. E. Post, Jr. '35, E. S. Roys '35, J. P. Scheu '35, and C. F. Woodard...