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William Rockefeller, George F. Baker, James Stillman, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas Fortune Ryan, George W. Perkins, J. Ogden Armour, John H. Patterson, Jacob H. Schiff and Andrew Carnegie, all business giants with money enough to subsist on the most expensive delicacies, are said to live more plainly than does the average American who is complaining of the high cost of living.
Here for a visit?" "I'm a buyer," said the plump woman. "Yes; I thought so. I'm the lingerie and infants'-wear buyer for Schiff, Chicago." "A buyer!" The plump woman's eyes jumped uncontrollably again to Sophy Gold's scrambled features. "Well! My name's Miss Morrissey Ella Morrissey. Millinery for Abelman's, Pittsburgh.
"Well a " The General looked round. "Travelin' depends on the weather." Dillon helped him out. "Exactly. Depends on the weather," echoed the General. "You don't get an old Sour-dough like Dillon to travel at forty degrees." "How are you to know?" whispered Schiff. "Tie a little bottle o' quick to your sled," answered Dillon. "Bottle o' what?" asked the Boy.
George H. Butler , Jacob H. Schiff , William V. Lawrence , the James B. Duke house with its simple lines at the Seventy-eighth Street corner, Payne Whitney , Isaac D. Fletcher , Howard C. Brokaw , Irving Brokaw , William J. Curtis , Walter Lewisohn , Hugh A. Murray , Nicholas F. Brady , Frank W. Woolworth , D. Crawford Clark , E.D. Faulkner , Mrs.
"Oh, I'm leavin' the fox-face for luck," Dillon nodded at the Colonel. But Schiff pointed reverently at the tear in the paper, as Dillon only went on pushing his sack deep down in his pocket, while Mac lifted the Examiner. All but the two millionaires bent forward and scrutinised the table.
Roland C. Lincoln, Lilian D. Wald, Felix Adler, Endicott Peabody, Lyman Abbott, Louise Seymour Houghton, Jacob H. Schiff, John Finley, Jew and Gentile who taught me why in this world personal conduct and personal character count ever for most, my love to you all! It is time I am off and away.
"Well, I'm glad we didn't get cold feet," says he. "Yes," whispered Schiff; "it looks like we goin' to the right place." The sheen of the heap of yellow treasure was trying even to the nerves of the Colonel. "Put it away," he said quite solemnly, laying the nugget on the paper "put it all away before the firelight dies down."
Here was a poser for Schiff, who saw at once that if Harriman could use the Illinois Central credit in this way, he certainly could carry out his plan. Schiff soon found that Harriman would have no difficulty in using Illinois Central credit. The upshot of the matter was that the two men got together and jointly reorganized the Union Pacific.
I bought an evening paper at Philadelphia, and there read the first news about the sinking of the great liner; I read them to my two travelling companions, both of whom disbelieved the story at the time; but Jacob Schiff met us in New York with the news that it was all too true, and that in the first moment of excitement he had hurried to the station to inform his brother-in-law, Warburg, of what had happened.
I'm thirty years old, and it's taken me ten years to work my way up to foreign buyer. I've worked. And I wasn't handicapped any by my beauty. I've made up my mind that I'm going to buy the smoothest-moving line of French lingerie and infants' wear that Schiff Brothers ever had." Miss Morrissey checked her. "But, my dear girl, haven't you been round at all?"
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