Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write this fully realizing that a man's worth is not gauged by the length of his obituary, yet I could not help but notice that in its March 22 issue, TIME devoted 292 lines to the passing of John Pierpont Morgan while it squeezed Stephen Vincent Benet into a mere...
...will tell me, of course, that Morgan was bigger news than Benet, and that a newsmagazine prints the news. Yet I think that America and American journalism would do itself proud if it would listen now & then to its poets...
...benevolent, religious, and educational objects," the late John Pierpont Morgan left little, noting in his probated will that he had already made donations to such causes "to the extent of my ability." Bulk of the estate, estimated at well under $50,000,000 (about a third of what his father left in 1913), went to his two sons, Naval Reserve Commander Junius Spencer Morgan and Lieut. Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan. Lesser bequests included $25,000 apiece to daughters Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols, their husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams...
...months ago the Erie Railroad signed a private bond-selling deal with the potent Wall Street underwriters, Morgan, Stanley & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission forced Erie to cancel the contract, and to open bidding to all comers. Thus the ICC joined hands with the SEC and the Fed eral Power Commission, both of which four years ago ordered competitive bidding on the sale of utility bonds. But the Commission's action meant more: it set tled for a time Wall Street's old fight over private v. public bond sales...
...reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which was written for Helen Morgan, "The Moon in Here," and a stirring war song scheduled to roll off the press in a few days, "Hands Off America." Following his return from the World War, Chaplain Landing completer his theological training at the Catholic University in Washington and at St. Meinrad's Seminary of the Benedictine...