Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great part of that legend was associated with the position of the House of Morgan. The legend began with the elder Morgan, John Pierpont (Maximus), a Hartford boy who went down to New York to do battle with Fisk and Gould, to trade with Vanderbilt for the control of U.S. railroads, to integrate U.S. industry through the power of finance...
...bedside went Dr. Henry Stewart Patterson, a first-rate New York heart specialist; Morgan's two daughters, Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer and Mrs. George Nichols; his younger son, Lieut. Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan, 42. His elder son, Junius Spencer Morgan, 51, was out of the country on active naval duty, as he had been in 1917-18. Seventy-five-year-old John Pierpont Morgan died at 3:15 in the morning of March...
...Morgan died in 1936 with the Nye investigation ringing throughout the land, he might have been written off as the international banker who got the U.S. into. World War I. But with U.S. industry, which Morgan & Co. had helped build to greatness, contributing on an unparalleled scale to another war, with Lend-Lease giving to Britain more aid than the bankers 29 years ago dreamed possible, his place in history had changed...
This week J. P. Morgan was buried at Middle Village, Queens, New York. With him the U.S. laid away not so much an era as a great misinterpretation...
...Morgan who died last week was not of that breed. A tycoon by inheritance, he was not a buccaneer by nature. Born in 1867 at Irvington-on-Hudson, at the beginning of his father's career, "Jack" Morgan was brought up in a genteel tradition, educated at St. Paul's School and Harvard, served a turn in his father's expanding firm, in 1898 departed for London...