Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years, the President has sacked only two others (he normally sheds unwanted officials by reshuffling their duties to others). FTCommissioner William E. Humphrey, fired in 1933, insisted until his death several months later that he was still an FTCommissioner. In 1938, TVA Chairman Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, having resisted numerous pointed invitations to resign, was fired with "regret...
Casanova Brown (Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Patricia Collinge; TIME, Sept...
...Francisco Grabhorn Press's de luxe edition of Joaquin Murrieta, The Brigand Chief of California was sold to the last copy the day after Jackson praised it over the air. When he panned such nationwide best-sellers as Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas, they ceased to sell on the Coast. (But Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends kept on selling despite his criticism.) Critic Jackson's own books of travel and California history (Mexican Interlude, Notes on a Drum, Anybody...
...began as a book, Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller. After two scenarists had taken a shy at making it into a screen play, it fell to the brilliant Preston Sturges (Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero}. As Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice...
Casanova Brown (Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Patricia Collinge; TIME, Sept...