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...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...
John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample...
Arrived off the Isle of Wight, the Hamburg transhipped the German Delegation onto the British destroyer Winchester which brought them with all honor to Southampton-honor particularly precious to a war-defeated nation...
April 28?Prince of Wales's homecoming from his South American good-will trip; at Southampton...
Having no intention of landing in England, whence he has been twice barred on grounds of moral turpitude, Harry Kendall Thaw rode into Southampton on the S. S. Europa. A delegation of immigration authorities boarded the ship, marched up to Mr. Thaw, told him he might not set foot on shore. Said he: "I am going to Germany, which is much more interesting, and after that to Czechoslovakia, where I shall be a guest of my friend, President Masaryk...