Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Pretty Baby, with Betsy Drake and Dennis Morgan...
...elder statesman of U.S. finance this week warned against straitjacketing the nation's rearmament economy with price & wage controls. In an all-out war, said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...
...selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired in 1943, he managed to keep dinner at the Waldorf a fastidious, expensive ritual despite Prohibition, the rise of the sandwich, and shortages brought...
Succeeding Under Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett as Investment Committee chairman was Thomas S. Lamont '21, vice-president of J.P. Morgan...
Henry Clay Alexander, 48, the new president, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and went from Vanderbilt University ('23) and Yale Law School to corporation practice with Morgan Lawyers Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. He was a Morgan partner by the time he was 36. For the past 22 months, as executive vice president, he has been in line to move up. As he did, President George Whitney became chairman, replacing longtime Morgan Partner Russell C. Leffingwell, who, at 72, stepped down to vice chairman...