Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morgan: Alumnus
This to be the last year of the booming, shouting, rollicking twenties, and seemingly to mark the peak of the boom, the Harvard Alumni Association chose as its president financial magnate J. Pierpont Morgan, symbolizing in a way what was often attacked as the American "worship of business." Hotels bought full page ads in the Crimson, advertising their "exclusive Fall Dansants," warning the wavering sophomore that "the smart folk will attend," or that "you'll find the best crowd in the college there." Boston was the center of Harvard social life, and for many this social life was the center...
...Yankees will play at Cleveland with Sturdivant (3-5) opposing the Indians' Daley (1-3). The Senators will play at Detroit, where Clavenger (2-0) will meet the Tigers' Maas (6-2). Baltimore will meet the Athletics at Kansas City, with the Orioles' Loes (5-3) against Morgan...
...rushed .to snap up the new issue. Those who did not subscribe sold their rights for an average $8.50 each. Thus, for about $85, brokers could get the ten rights needed to buy one new share at $220. Many of these rights were bought by Wall Street's Morgan Stanley & Co., manager of the 255-firm investment syndicate underwriting the issue. Using the rights, Morgan Stanley picked up a block of new stock, put it on the open market; it was promptly oversubscribed...
...Gaumont; Continental) is an American's idea of a Frenchman's idea of an Englishman's idea of France. The American is Director Preston Sturges, a comic genie (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) who was popped back in the bottle by Hollywood some years ago, but who recently popped out in Paris, where he made this film. The Frenchman is Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than...