Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Associate Professor Herman Bloch and Associate Professor Morgan G. White will become full professors on July 1, Provost Paul H. Buck announced yesterday...
...Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being...
Invited to Sit Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...
...Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster Farley a "real Democrat...
Married. Kay Summersby, 43, Irish-born WAC captain who became General Eisenhower's wartime driver, aide, confidential secretary, later told her story in Eisenhower Was My Boss; and Reginald H. Morgan, 47, Manhattan broker, she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...