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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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en supporting him openly ;and a still greater number, while abstaining froman active part in the campaign, have allowed itto be known or inferred that they were privatelyfavorable to Mr. McKinleys reelection. It wasgenerally believed that a second term of Mr.McKinleys administration would be still morefree than the first from conscious and intentionalpartisanship, and that its object would be to laymost substantial foundations for another centuryof American progress. THE GREAT FINANCIER, J. PIERPONTMORGAN. IN the December Munseys, Mr. John Paul Bo-cock has a brief but interesting article onAmericas Foremost Financier, Mr. J. Pier-pont Morgan. Mr. Bocock describes the headof the banking firm of J, Pierpont Morgan &Co., the greatest power in Wall Street, as a mandistinguished not only for his large charity, butfor his even more unusual modesty, or hatred ofnotoriety—whatever it is that makes him insiston the anonymity of his great gifts. Although LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 739
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MR. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. he has given away some ;5,000,000, not a singleinstitution which has benefited by his generositybears his name. His abhorrence of notoriety is one of thestrong factors in his personal equation. Othersare his imperious will, his acuteness of thought,a,nd his brevity of speech. Another powerfulfactor is his physique. Six feet in height, withthe shoulders and chest of an athlete, he is, withall his two hundred and more pounds weiglit, soquick in his movements as to force upon all be-holders the conclusion that here indeed is a manboth intellectually and physically in touch withthe foremost forces of his time. AN ACCESSIBLE MAN. A railroad president from a not far distantState, whose name was also identified with aninstitution of learning, called one morning, notmany years ago, at 23 Wall Street, and asked tosee Mr Morgan. A peculiarity of the banking-house is that almost anybody can see Mr. Moiganwho wants to; he does not sit in a sanctum, sliutaway by mahogany do

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