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...assets of two bonds valued at $1,000 each. Now Treasurer Plimpton is 79 and Barnard, at 45, has property and endowment totalling $9,000,000 spends one-tenth that amount every year. Once while he was traveling on the Yukon River with the late great Jacob Schiff, that immigrant financier mentioned proudly that he would soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the U. S with only $500. On the anniversary, shrewd Mr Plimpton sent him a note, received $550,000 in return. On another occasion John Davison Rockefeller Sr. took Mr Plimpton aside, told...
Married. Edith Baker, 20, daughter of Banker George Fisher Baker (First National); and John Mortimer Schiff, 29, only son of the late Mortimer Leo Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb); in Manhattan (TIME, March...
...Kuhn, Loeb. Built eleven years after a Kuhn, Loeb senior partner, Otto Hermann Kahn, arrived in the U. S. from his German birthplace by way of England, No. 52 houses the great banking firm in only four of its 20 floors. There in his day, shrewd old Jacob Schiff reorganized the big Kuhn, Loeb railroads: Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El read the services. Before sundown the body was lowered into its grave in the family plot at Cold Spring Memorial Cemetery, not far from the bones of an old friend and wise partner, Mortimer Schiff...
...room they will have a hard time finding a man to take Otto Kahn's place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm...