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-338-and liked to take pretty actresses yachting. Each Corsair was a finer vessel than the last.
When he dined with King Edward he sat at His
Majesty's right; he ate with the Kaiser tête-à-tête; he liked talking to cardinals or the pope, and never missed a conference of Episcopal bishops;
Rome was his favorite city.
He liked choice cookery and old wines and pretty
women and yachting, and going over his col ections, now and then picking up a jewel ed snuffbox and staring at it with his magpie's eyes.
He made a col ection of the autographs of the
rulers of France, owned glass cases ful of Babylonian tablets, seals, signets, statuettes, busts,
Gal o-Roman bronzes,
Merovingian jewels, miniatures, watches, tapes-tries, porcelains, cuneiform inscriptions, paintings by al the old masters, Dutch, Italian, Flemish, Spanish,
manuscripts of the gospels and the Apocalypse,
a col ection of the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the letters of Pliny the Younger. His col ectors bought anything that was expensive
or rare or had the glint of empire on it, and he had it brought to him and stared hard at it with his magpie's eyes. Then it was put in a glass case.
The last year of his life he went up the Nile on a
dahabiyeh and spent a long time staring at the great columns of the Temple of Karnak. The panic of 1907 and the death of Harriman, his
great opponent in railroad financing, in 1909, had left him the undisputed ruler of Wal Street, most power-ful private citizen in the world; an old man tired of the purple, suffering from
gout, he had deigned to go to Washington to answer the questions of the Pujo Committee during the Money
-339-Trust Investigation: Yes, I did what seemed to me to be for the best interests of the country.
So admirably was his empire built that his death
in 1913 hardly caused a ripple in the exchanges of the world: the purple descended to his son, J. P. Morgan, who had been trained at Groton and Harvard and by associating with the British ruling class
to be a more constitutional monarch: J. P. Morgan suggests. . . By 1917 the Al ies had borrowed one bil ion, nine-hundred mil ion dol ars through the House of Mor-gan: we went overseas for democracy and the flag; and by the end of the Peace Conference the phrase
J. P. Morgan suggests had compulsion over a power of seventyfour bil ion dol ars. J. P. Morgan is a silent man, not given to public
utterances, but during the great steel strike, he wrote Gary: Heartfelt congratulations on your stand for the open shop, with which I am, as you know, absolutely in accord. I believe American principles of liberty are deeply involved, and must win if we stand firm. (Wars and panics on the stock exchange,
machinegunfire and arson,
bankruptcies, warloans,
starvation, lice, cholera and typhus:
good growing weather for the House of Morgan.)
NEWSREEL XXXV
the Grand Prix de la Victoire, run yesterday for fifty-second time was an event that wil long remain in the mem-ories of those present, for never in the history of the classic race has Longchamps presented such a glorious scene
-340- Keep the home fires burning
Till the boys come home.
LEVIATHAN UNABLE TO PUT TO SEA
BOLSHEVIKS ABOLISH POSTAGE STAMPS
ARTIST TAKES GAS IN NEW HAVEN
FIND BLOOD ON $1 BILL
While our hearts are yearning
POTASH CAUSE OF BREAK IN PARLEY
MAJOR DIES OF POISONING
TOOK ROACH SALTS BY MISTAKE
riot and robbery developed into the most awful pogrom ever heard of. Within two or three days the Lemberg ghetto was turned into heaps of smoking debris. Eyewitnesses estimate that the Polish soldiers kil ed more than a thousand jew-ish men and women and children LENINE SHOT BY TROTSKY IN DRUNKEN
BRAWL
you know where I stand on beer, said Brisbane in seek-ing assistance Though the boys are far away
They long for home
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining
PRESIDENT EVOKES CRY OF THE DEAD
LETTER CLEW TO BOMB OUTRAGE
Emile Deen in the preceding three instal ments of his interview described the situation between the Royal Dutch and the Standard