32 “shook his fist”: Sayers, The Bank of England, 75.
33 “I have been at work”: Boyle, Montagu Norman, 98.
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36 One of those who: Chernow, The Warburgs, 153.
36 The famously indiscreet kaiser: Ferguson, The Pity of War, 191.
36 There was also talk: Wilson and Hammerton, The Great War, 68.
37 “considerably outshone his fellow directors”: Somary, The Raven of Zurich, 71.
37 “curiously stiff gait”: Bonn, Wandering Scholar, 303.
38 “a restless wanderer”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 24.
38 “sentimental, gay and full of feeling”: Goldensohn, The Nuremberg Interviews, 231.
41 “Germany’s steady advance”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 129.
42 a large “howling mob”: Tuchman, The Guns of August, 129.
42 Bizarre rumors spread: Wolff, The Eve of 1914, 524.
43 “The next time”: Charles A. Conant, “How Financial Europe Prepared for the Great War,” New York Times, August 30, 1914.
44 “a tremendous solemnity”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 60.
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45 “Show me a hero”: F. Scott Fitzgerald quote from The Yale Book of Quotations, 274.
45 Strong had been elected president: “E. C. Converse Drawing Out,” New York Times, January 9, 1914.
45 He had left the United States: “Cloud and Rain Mar Berlin Season,” New York Times, June 14, 1914.
47 Finished from floor to ceiling: “No Morgan Bower atop Bankers Trust,” New York Times, May 16, 1912.
47 In 1912, during the Pujo Committee hearings: “Five Men Control $368,000,000 Here,” New York Times, December 11, 1912.
48 Anxious to avoid: “Bankers Here Confer on War,” New York Times, July 31, 1914.
49 “The credit of all Europe”: Chernow, House of Morgan, 185.
51 In later years: Nicolson, Dwight Morrow, 111.
51 In May 1905: “Mrs. Strong Kills Herself,” New York Times, May 11, 1905.
53 “And to think”: Strouse, Morgan, 15.
53 they were exactly the type of young men: Strouse, Morgan, 576.
54 Besides Davison himself: The only two participants who wrote about the Jekyll Island meeting were Frank Vanderlip in his autobiography From Farm Boy to Financier and Paul Warburg in a communication to Thomas Lamont reproduced in Thomas W. Lamont, Henry P. Davison, 97-101. The first contemporary description, though secondhand, appeared in an article by Bertie Charles Forbes, who later founded Forbes magazine, in Current Opinion, December 1916, 382. An account is also given in Stephenson, Nelson Aldrich. Recent descriptions are in West, Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 222-224; Chernow, The Warburgs, 133-134; and Michael A. Whitehouse, “Paul Warburg’s Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United States” in The Region, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, May 1989.
55 “the highest pitch of intellectual awareness”: Vanderlip, From Farm Boy to Financier, 216