Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas Lamont, has a long record as a Soviet apologist and a sponsor for Communist fronts, including a term as chairman of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship. In its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee has made great play with Lamont's name as an Institute member...
...However, my late father, Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co., did have considerable knowledge of the Far East and visited both Japan and China. For more than twenty years he participated actively in the work of the Institute of Pacific Relations and contributed generously to it ... On the other hand. I did not start contributions to the Institute until 1946. From that year until the present I made six donations totaling $800, or about one-eighteenth of the total of my father's gifts. Yet your subcommittee and its investigators have never once mentioned my Republican father...
...diverse and distinguished watchdogs on the Overseers include the chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan, the editor of Harper's, the headmaster of Exeter, and the man who supervised the making of the first atom bomb...
Students must master precise legal thinking, as just retired Harvard professor Edmund M. Morgan puts it, "learn to think things through, not just accept generalizations--when you study a case, details make the difference." Professor Austin W. Scott of Harvard points out that the law student can no longer rely solely on a good memory; he must understanding, Scott adds, comes slowly to many students...
There is no college curriculum that specifically prepares all men for law school, Harvard and Yale agree. Many professors, however, advise courses in mathematics, philosophy, and other disciplines which require an ability to think about problems in concrete terms. Morgan says wryly, however, that he would be well satisfied if his students could all read the English language accurately...