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...evenings before President Hoover's special message went to Congress, a tired-looking gentleman in a Homburg hat stepped off a train from New York. It was John Pierpont Morgan. ''I'm just down here for dinner," he told newsmen. "I have no statement to make." Two private detectives closed in chorusing: "Mr. Morgan has no statement to make." That night Secretary of the Navy
...father as U. S. Representative from Minnesota. James Jeremiah ("Jerry") Wadsworth, 26, Yale 1927, son of the ex-Senator from New York, is now a New York Assemblyman. A candidate for the New York State Senate in 1930 was Alexander Hamilton, then 27, Harvard 1925, nephew of John Pierpont Morgan, great-great-grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury. Frederic Rene Coudert Jr., 34, Columbia 1918, onetime assistant U. S. Attorney, ran for New York District Attorney in 1929. James Roosevelt, 25, onetime Harvard student, son of New York's Governor, campaigns for his father in Massachusetts...
...most important chairmanship held by John Pierpont Morgan is symbolized by the chair at the head of the partners' table in his firm's dining room where he and his 20 partners lunch every day. discuss the world's affairs. His next most important chair has for five years been the one around on Broadway at the head of the directors' table of United States Steel Corp. Mr. Morgan assumed that position in 1927 upon Judge Gary's death at the urgent request of his good friend the late George Fisher Baker. It was understood that his duties were...
...library of his Manhattan home, dressed and ready for dinner, John Pierpont Morgan sat down at a flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help...
Died. Lewis Cass Ledyard, 80, famed corporation lawyer, president since 1917 of the New York Public Library; of myocarditis; in Manhattan. Good friend to the elder John Pierpont Morgan and Payne Whitney, he executed their estates. As trustee of the fund created by Samuel Jones Tilden, he helped merge the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library. Lawyer Ledyard, like his partners James Coolidge Carter and John George Milburn, was a onetime president of the New York Bar Association. For 30 years he was counsel to the New York Stock Exchange. In an age of business dinosaurs...