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Some seven years ago Jeremiah Milbank, Manhattan banker, paid a call at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., asked to "see the man who handled Southern Railway Co.'s affairs.'' Shown into the office of Thomas Cochran. Banker Milbank found John Pierpont Morgan also there. The three tycoons chatted, Mr. Milbank finally said he would like to see Southern pay some dividend on its common stock. The Morgan men explained that Southern's intrenchment policy put dividends out of the question...
Harvard: E. W. Clark, R. B. Cutler, N. M. Goodhue, A. S. Pier, Jr., W. L. Post, E. Roys, C. Seeman, F. A. Webster, C. F. Woodard, H. T. Pierpont...
...President James Augustine Farrell, onetime wire drawer, dictates the financial policies of United States Steel Corp. no more than did the late great Judge Elbert Henry Gary. The Ruler of Steel is its finance committee. Member John Pierpont Morgan was absent in England when Steel's finance committee met last week in the unadorned Steel Corporation offices at No. 71 Broadway. But present were his partner Thomas William Lament, Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. Just as in 1921 the finance committee lowered wages over the protest of Judge Gary, last week in effect...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...Gibson became president. When he left this Morgan bank at the end of 1930 to resuscitate Manufacturers Trust Co.. he was chairman of its executive committee. In financial circles, he has an almost sacerdotal distinction. He is one of six men upon whom the present John Pierpont Morgan has called in their offices...