Birthday. John Pierpont Morgan, 75, world's most famed capitalist; on Labor Day; on vacation from his Wall Street office (where he still works) and his Long Island estate (where he raises tulips that have a fragrance).
Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but...
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