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Sanford, W. G.; Salisbury, G. J.; Schneer, C. J. '44; Scripter, L. J.; Simmons, A. J.; Simon, D. L.; Smith, J. M., Jr.; Spencer, D. R.; Speyer, H. W.; Stanton, H. M.; Stern, J. E.; Stevick...
Died. James Speyer, 80, senior partner (1899-1939) of Speyer & Co., international bankers; in Manhattan. Member of a German family whose name had been associated with banking since the Middle Ages, he was head of the 102-year-old Speyer house in the U.S. until it closed for good...
...Wall Street brokers"; in Manhattan. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1885, weathered five panics, sold the first U.S. Steel common-120,000 shares the first day-created a sensation in 1926 when he noiselessly bought control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. for Speyer & Co. and a western road...
Died. George Blumenthal, 83, international banker, philanthropist, and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Manhattan. Born in Frankfort on Main, he was sent to this country by Speyer & Co., later became a partner in Lazard Freres. With J. P. Morgan the elder, he was one of five bankers whose $65,000,000 gold loans saved Grover Cleveland from giving up specie payments in 1896. He gave $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum in 1928, close to $2,000,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital...
...Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper, ruddy, wax-mustached little Mr. Bagby, 81, was not present: he had the grippe. Later he caught pneumonia. Last week he died. Oscar of the Waldorf, Banker James Speyer, old Mrs. James Roosevelt, many another dowager went to his funeral...