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...elder J. P. Morgan, how Mr. Morgan immediately engaged him to amalgamate and head the Federal Steel Corp., how Judge Gary kept insisting that a still bigger corporation must be formed to compete with England and Germany, how Mr. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie and put Charles M. Schwab, a Carnegie man, in the presidency and Judge Gary in the executive chair of the first billion-dollar trust is familiar history...
...Both Mr. Schwab and Mr. Corey were self-assertive. Judge Gary could not persuade them that he, and he only, was the proper spokes-man for the corporation; that they must be merely administrators. There was no derogation in being administrator to the Judge...
...bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess I'll let you read it in the morning newsapers." The nub of the speech was that it is harder...
...luncheon was arranged in Mr. Markle's honor by the Pennsylvania Society of New York, of which Charles M. Schwab is President...
Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold...