Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolver-toting stranger was not John Wilkes Booth, but a look-alike named Thomas Mines. Like Booth, he had a price on his head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon...
...York (Morgan) 8, Philadelphia...
Greek-born Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 48, who is under indictment on a charge of conspiring to gyp the U.S. in some postwar deals to buy surplus ships (TIME, Feb. 15), waited for delivery of one of the fanciest yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost...
...directors. He filed suit charging that the directors misused Central funds by hiring a publicity firm (Manhattan's Robinson-Hannagan Associates) to help fight him and by spending company money to solicit proxies for the Central meeting, May 26. Young also charged that four big banks (J. P. Morgan, the Mellon National Bank, First National of New York City and Chase National) were deriving "substantial benefits" from the fact that their heads are Central board members. The railroad itself, Young noted, operated at a $2,762,696 deficit last month. What galled Young even more was the contract given...
...punishing heat of the rainless Australian summer, no one can escape the vague menace that lies in the coal strike. The men spend their strike pay in the saloons, their families do without, the merchants grumble. Only two men really enjoy the strike: George Morgan, a young miner spurred by idealism and an itch for leadership, and Owner Quint, who also owns just about everything else in Gerindery that pays a profit, including the paper that Mike Lambert runs...