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...Bernard de Gongora, written on board the Armada, and sent back to Spain while the fleet was in the English Channel. There are signed documents showing the extent of Philip II's efforts and the organization of the English defence by the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
Died. Julia Peabody Lewis Morris, 47, wife of Philadelphia Financier Effingham B. Morris Jr. (Girard Trust Co.); when a horse she was riding caught its knee on a fence in mid-jump, somersaulted onto her; near Narcissa...
...murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed but carefully-manicured Corpo commander who says, "Just take the bastard out and shoot him, will you?", and of the Jessups' lazy, loud mouthed hired man who embraces Corpoism early because he wants 1) to show his kindly employers that he is as good a man as they; 2) a gaudy...
Pennsylvania R. R.'s annual meeting was conducted, as it has been for years, by Effingham Buckley Morris, senior director (elected 1896) and chairman of the finance committee. Now 78, head of Philadelphia's big Girard Trust Co. and a civic leader of his community, Chairman Morris has been annoyed at the past few Pennsylvania meetings by what he undoubtedly believes to be sheer impudence. Last year the stockholders wanted to know all about salaries. This year they demanded the details of Pennroad Corp., an ill-starred venture into railroad holding companies...
...give for not paying dividends. . . . I suggest that the officers go without their salaries for two years. They can spare their fabulous salaries, while we stockholders, who put all we had into the railroad, have to be impoverished. I want to know why? Why?" Politely the presiding officer, Director Effingham Buckley Morris, replied that so far as he knew the directors had voted all the dividends there were. A vice president pointed out that dividends had been paid in every year of the Depression. "There is a decidedly more encouraging outlook," he purred. "My question is not answered," snapped...