Word: morganism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filbert was already marshalling facts & figures in one of the component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither Social Register nor Who's Who, he has been sitting on Steel's directorate since 1919 as the equal of such men as Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan, Sewell Lee Avery, Walter Gifford, George Fisher Baker, Thomas W. Lament. He will continue to sit there after he starts drawing his pension...
...famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...
Shuffling past all these at a special preview last week went Andrew W. Mellon, his daughter Mrs. David Kilpatrick Bruce. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Junius Morgan, Miss Helen Frick and five members of her family, besides some 700 other socialites, to the great delight of society reporters. Almost unnoticed in the pack was a little old lady in a black hat: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie setting foot in the Frick house for the first time in her life...
Three months ago, when the Morgan Liner Dixie was grounded in a hurricane in the Florida Straits, her 231 passengers spent some 60 hours face to face with the greatest terror of their lives. Kept from their staterooms by sloshing sewage and seawater, they huddled about the smashed furniture in the ship's public rooms, sang, peered through rain-drenched windows at the waiting ships which finally succeeded in rescuing them all (TIME. Sept...
...while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered reminiscences, cheered the captain, gurgled effusive compliments to the Morgan Line...