Each year as the earth completes its circuit around the sun a group of Manhattan bankers, mighty gods of finance, assemble for the annual dinner of Group Eight of the New York State Bankers.
Number 27 of these dinners was held during the past week. The guest of honor was George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the Board of the First National Bank, doyen of U. S. bankers, hale and hearty, just on the short side of his 85th birthday and the 61st anniversary of his Wall Street career.
Present were John P. Morgan, Andrew W....
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