Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, well-dressed Thomas Sovereign Gates, 16th President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time...
...glimpse of the elder J. P. Morgan's imperious bulk convinced Graduate Bernie that he wanted to be a financier. He went to work in Wall Street as an unpaid apprentice...
...person who originated this program and got Chicago's Board of Education to okay it is a handsome, 36-year-old Negro teacher, Madeline Robinson Morgan. She is the wife of a civilian foreman at Chicago's Army Quartermaster Depot. As a girl Mrs. Morgan knew days and nights of terror, during Chicago's 1919 race riots. She got a master's degree in education at Northwestern University, taught at Chicago's Emerson School...
...Morgan got a year and a half's leave to do research, work out a curriculum, integrate it with the school program as a whole. She says she had her "fingers crossed all the time but most teachers are enthusiastic about the material and children take it as a matter of course." Mrs. Morgan hopes for a change in "quality of attitudes" but expects no miracles. She is pleased that New York City school authorities show interest, that Chicago's Catholic pedagogues are planning a similar step...
Jerry Voorhis pours into its 238 pages the same Messianic energy with which he once served on Yale debating teams, and now server in Congress. He indicts "sound money" financiers all the way from Alexander Hamilton to J. P. Morgan, and incidentally does some hard thinking on one of the biggest and most difficult subjects...