Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person whom the University wishes to honor, or whose incorporation in the University is deemed an honor to the institution. In modern times most such degrees represent mutual backscratching by college presidents and recognition of indirect if concrete contributions to learning by such men as J. P. Morgan '89, LL.D. '23. Recipients of honorary degrees are almost without exception only those no farther left than dead center and capable of unqualified approval by the Dies Committee and the D.A.R...
...boiled over when the Little Flower said that one of Mr. Morgan's unpaid assistants, Mrs. Preston Davie, must go. Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie, rich, beauteous, energetic, is no ordinary woman. A onetime leader of the Landon Volunteers, active in the G.O.P., she is vice president of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. Enlisting in Mr. Morgan's department as head of a wartime food-conservation program, big May Davie soon made feathers...
...Chase National's Winthrop, she had been appointed by LaGuardia to run the city's whole civilian-defense program. In the interests of unity, earnest Harriet Aldrich thought that all civilian-defense jobs should clear through her. She wrote to Butch. The Mayor sent word to Mr. Morgan to fire Mrs. Davie...
...Morgan sent word back that he would do no such thing. The Mayor replied that he would, then. "All these things grated on my good nature," Mr. Morgan explained later. "And so I went to the Mayor's office at City Hall...
...feather-filled air he finally cornered Butch. As Mr. Morgan described the interview: "He began hollering at me and yelling for me to dismiss Mrs. Preston Davie. . . . 'Fire that dame! Fire that dame!' he kept yelling." Mr. Morgan decided that the time had come. He handed over his resignation. LaGuardia snapped it up. Shouting, "La commedia è finita!,"* opera-loving Fiorello waved Mr. Morgan goodby, threw Mr. Morgan's secretary out after him and demoted Mr. Morgan's chief inspector. Gritted Mr. Morgan: "A complete and utter outrage...