Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperturbable William Fulton, collected an impressive bouquet of scallions thrown at isolationists by former Diplomat Nicholas Roosevelt; Right Rev. William Lawrence, Episcopal bishop emeritus of Massachusetts; Colonel John Stilwell, president, National Safety Council; Frederic R. Coudert, Lawrence Hunt, Henry Breckinridge, lawyers; Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, New York; Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan. Miss Morgan said dryly: "Americans must get away from that terrible word 'security...
Learned Hand '93, Henry James '99, Thomas W. Lamont '92, Frederick Roy Martin '93, Langdon P. Marvin '98, J. P. Morgan '89, Henry S. Morgan '23, James H. Perkins '98, Elithu Root, Jr. '06, the Rev. Minot Simons '91, and George Whitney...
...Torsten Kreuger, brother of the late gross match king, owns two important Stockholm dailies, Aftonbladet and Tidningen. Torsten Kreuger hates all those who helped to strip him of Ivar's properties, believes the House of Morgan is a hive of Jewry, means to get even...
...years he personally took over delinquent loans rather than let them spot the bank's records. A stickler for liquid assets, he astounded U. S. Treasury officials by turning in $350,000 in gold when the New Deal forsook the gold standard. Like the elder J. P. Morgan, he had plenty of money to lend to a man with character, none for a man without it, Stubborn, independent, able, he refused to close his firm for the 1933 bank holiday, went out in the street and urged jittery depositors to come in and get their money, finally compromised with...
...plot or how mediocre its songs. Not that the plot of "Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots Fred as a potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble. Everything from ambitious amateur comediennes to a continually blotto George Murphy interrupts rehearsals--while Fred Astaire...