Business: The Last Titan

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He had intimately affected the destinies of, and had outlived John Pierpont Morgan, James Jerome Hill, Andrew Carnegie, James Stillman and a hundred other millionaires whose names are economic history. For the past two years he had been very feeble. When the market broke in 1929 he was sick-a-bed but begged to go downtown. "This is my ninth panic," he protested. "I have made money in every one of them." Since...

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