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...Also last week Cheyenne reported forest fires raging through dry Wyoming. Dude ranchers turned out to fight the flames. Two fire fighters: Junius Spencer Morgan, son of Banker John Pierpont Morgan; Daniel Roosevelt, nephew of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Most renowned U. S. banker J. Pierpont Morgan steamed into Southampton water last week on his yacht Corsair after a record Atlantic crossing (7 days, 7 hr.), the Corsair's second this year. He laughed when asked if he had hurried to participate in the London Conference, said he would spend a few weeks at Wall Hall, his Hertfordshire estate, shoot a few grouse in Scotland. In 1926 a Morgan loan helped save the French franc from collapsing. In 1925 a Morgan bond issue of $100,000,000 helped pull Italy from grave financial difficulties. Four months...
...London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent for John Pierpont Morgan. The Morgan agent finally bought the manuscript for $165,000. Mrs. Noyes testified that Mrs. Westby simply had acted upon her suggestion that someone start the bidding, that no fee had been stipulated...
Nonetheless the late John Pierpont Morgan believed in the possibility of such wireless power. That was at the time when Mr. Morgan was creating U. S. Steel Corp. and International Mercantile Marine. He was not averse to world control of power and communications. (The House of Morgan is banker for American Telephone & Telegraph, International Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union, United Corp., and many another electrical utility.) Banker Morgan gave Genius Tesla great amounts of money for experiment. In Colorado in 1899, Tesla built a huge in duction coil by which he generated and, he says, sent out wireless waves the same...
...John Pierpont Morgan declined to accept the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an office long held by his father. Reason: "Pressure of business." Same day he announced he will leave soon in his yacht Corsair for a few weeks in "Wall Hall," his 16,000-acre estate at Alderham, Herts...