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The group arrived in New York on 10 September, and were met by J. P. Morgan Jr., who had been designated as Britain's sole purchasing agent in the United States in January 1915, and Britain's ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
The Anglo-French Financial Commission and an American syndicate led by J.P. Morgan & Co. reached a credit agreement for $500 million over five years, at that time the largest single loan in financial history. [131] Born: Ethel Rosenberg, American spy, convicted along with Julius for sharing state secrets with the Soviet Union, in New York City (d.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the eldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy .
In 1915 a "Frank Holt" was subdued by a butler armed with a lump of coal after shooting financier J. P. Morgan, Jr. at Morgan's Glen Cove, New York home. Dynamite was found in the assailant's coat, [37] and he quickly confessed to planting the bomb which had wrecked a United States Senate reception room the day before.
du Pont married Alice Belin Du Pont, his first cousin, in 1915; she died in 1944. He was a bachelor until age 45. On October 16, 1915, after the death of his mother, he married his first cousin Alice Belin (1872–1944), a daughter of Henry Belin Jr., from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1920. After graduation from Brown, Rockefeller joined his father's business in October 1897, setting up operations in the newly formed family office at 26 Broadway where he became a director of Standard Oil. He later also became a director at J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company, which had
Crosby's uncle, J. P. Morgan, Jr., agreed to provide a position for Crosby in Paris at Morgan, Harjes et Cie. [2] Crosby already spoke and read fluent French [12] [13] and moved to Paris in May. Polly preceded him there, but returned to the United States in July, angry and jealous.
Benjamin Strong Jr. (December 22, 1872 – October 16, 1928) was an American banker.He served as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 14 years until his death.