our crowd Author:Stephen birmingham From LIFE magazine: "Here are the Seligmans, transformed overnight from peddlers to financial advisors to presidents. Here is Jacob Schiff, not too long out of the Frankfurt Getto, contending with J. Pierpont Morgan himself...Here is Otto Kahan, engaging Gatti-Casazza and Toscanini to bring the Metropolitan Opera to the premier rank. Here are ... more »the Lehmans rising from peddlers to cotton brokers to bankers to public servants...« less