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...Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected to a charge of photo graphic espionage has assumed proportions which threaten...
...Robert Emmett Sherwood, the late John Reed, the late Alan Seeger, the late John Macy. There is a Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world. Every year it brings "Copey" to the Harvard Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lamont, George Palmer Putnam, Owen Wister. Two years ago "Copey" retired as Professor Emeritus. In his wry, quavering, sprightly voice he spoke of a horse that was "old. lame, spavined, moth-eaten, blind in one eye, and with ears drooping. However, it seemed peaceful and contented. That...
...institution already has an endowment of some $30,000,000. John Pierpont Morgan gave it $2,000,000. George Fisher Baker & his late father jointly gave an-other $2,000,000. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial also gave $2,000,000. But the largest donor and virtual creator of the medical centre was the late generous Payne Whitney. His gifts totaled some...
...secretive. They almost always preface international financial developments of the greatest importance. Fortnight after his last visit, year ago, Britain went off the gold standard. Leaving Governor Norman to sun his silvery beard in Bar Harbor, newshawks instantly checked the whereabouts of the most important U. S. financiers. John Pierpont Morgan was grouse-shooting in Scotland, was reported to have had a secret conference with Governor Norman just before the Britannic left Cobh (Queenstown). Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve was at his country place in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Attention came to sharp focus when Morgan Partner Thomas...
...before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy birds, and those who had leases planned a season of hard shooting...