Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Physician Logan Clendening, Actor Robert Montgomery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (honorary...
Among many others giving books or money to the library were J. P. Morgan '89, the Trustees of Elcanor Elkins Rice, Owen D. Young, the Biblioteca Nacional of Buenos Aires, and the Boston School Committee...
Pert, youthful Sylvia Weld, playing her first Broadway lead, gives a tense, natural portrayal of inner torment. Ralph (brother of Frank) Morgan seems rather too professional to be convincing as the father, but Tom Powers plays an intelligent priest to the life. John Hoysradt appears as an outrageously affected writer whose rasping impudence stabs the girl like a sword...
Jesse Livermore had learned that big money could be made only on the big swings. Now he had enough capital to play it that way. Just before the tense Thursday in October of 1907 when J. P. Morgan & Co. and other banks poured $25,000,000 into the call-money market he took a short position. While older & wiser traders were wiped out, Jesse Livermore picked up a cool million or so and a reputation beyond price. Thirty years old, he was again dubbed the Boy Plunger-this time by Wall Street. He bought a steam yacht and sailed...
...Morgan is the only man who ever kicked him out of his office, but "has long since nobly mellowed." His office displays what B. C. suspects are the largest and smallest checks ever written in a business transaction: $208,581,250 to George Baker's First National Bank for part of the famous James Hill railroad financing; 1? to J. P.'s son Junius for a Federal tax refund...