Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please get Sherman Adams on the line for me," he ordered, loud enough for nearby FTC staffers to hear. "Sherm, I'm over at the FTC," he said on the telephone. "I was well received over here." ¶ The next year, Adams asked White House Special Counsel Gerald Morgan to check with Securities and Exchange...
...ephelis, abatis and coulisse, that few can spell and few, least of all the handful of youngsters still competing in the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, can translate into everyday English. In the second day and the 19th round of the spelldown, 13-year-old Betty Morgan, whose horn-blowing, flag-waving claque from Washington's St. Thomas Apostle School had cheered her through spinosity, serriform and caliginous, choked up on chiaus. Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly...
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated...
...Wall Street Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., called for a tax cut of $5 billion or more as the real spur to economic activity. Such a cut, said Alexander, "is the course of prudence in today's circumstances. Our economy is as much a weapon in the struggle for survival as our rockets and our missiles...
Twentieth century commentaries are also included and form some of the most interesting material in the book, especially those of Juanita Brooks, Dale. L. Morgan, Samuel W. Taylor, and Wallace Stegner whose eulogy to Salt Lake City concludes the volume. Indeed, the major complaint one can find with Among the Mormons is that the accounts are concentrated too heavily in the earlier periods of Mormon history, giving the book an overly academic tone...