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The last time a J.P. Morgan helped solve an American banking crisis, it was the dude - John Pierpont Morgan himself - rather than the institution that now bears his name who had come to the rescue ...
GLEN COVE, L. I., N.Y., July 3, 1915 (UP) - John Pierpont Morgan, the financier, was shot at his summer home here shortly before 9 o'clock to-day. The would-be assassin, apparently of German ...
John Pierpont Morgan did buy the bottle sometime in the late 19th century or early 20th century, but how and when is a bit unclear. One version of the story says he got the bottle in a set of ...
Banking being a business of reputation, John Pierpont Morgan II, then 45 and now 65. inherited the world’s greatest banking reputation at almost the precise moment when the U. S. was destined to ...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary permitted the Saturday Evening Post to print last week an interview concerning the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the man who had raised him, a reluctant Illinois ...
The library of John Pierpont Morgan, also known as the East Room. Graham Haber/Courtesy Morgan Library & Museum Another of Morgan’s lasting legacies is now gearing up to celebrate its 100th ...
And there’s John Pierpont Morgan, the 19th-century American financier who used his unimaginable wealth to build a collection of art and manuscripts so grand that The Times of London, in 1908 ...
Morgan By Jean Strouse Random House, $34. 95. John Pierpont Morgan died, in the grandest suite of Rome’s Grand Hotel, just days shy of his 76th birthday, on March 31, 1913, leaving money, art ...
J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...
In 1942, at the New York mansion of the American industrialist John Pierpont Morgan, crowds filed past a large mural titled “Automatic Hitler-Kicking Machine,” which depicted a complex and ...