Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment bankers (with a 25% interest in the transaction), got all the stock in the Chrysler Building and its annex plus the stock controlling the Graybar Building. The money came from $40 million worth of mortgage bonds taken by Equitable Life Assurance Society, $4,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., $8,000,000 from Webb & Knapp...
Skinner is the second Harvard alumnus to receive the nation's highest military decoration--the first to be so honored for his performance in Korea. The other holder of the decoration is Pierpont Morgan Hamilton...
...student meetings per week. But since this requirement can be filled by auditing student government meetings, there is no religious compulsion. In this tolerant, pray-as-you-go condition, religion flourishes in a quiet way, and Sunday services are well attended even after party week-ends. Moreover, Kenneth Morgan, the college chaplain (a post created in 1946) is highly spoken of by the student body. He is, incidently, no Baptist, but a Friend...
...Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back in the U.S. and no longer a party member, he turned out a set of widely read, statistics-laden tracts (The House of Morgan, The Decline of American Capitalism, etc.), became a leading anti-Communist educator in the U.S. labor movement, a professor of political economy at Antioch College...
...more bohemian than Brahmin. His architect grandfather, the first Christian Herter, came to the U.S. from Stuttgart at a time when the country was accumulating culture as rapidly and indiscriminately as it was founding fortunes. He found an eager clientele, built great mansions from Fifth Avenue (for J. P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt) to Nob Hill (for Mark Hopkins), and gilded them with the treasures of Europe. But grandfather had no taste for business, and vowed that when he made a million dollars he would retire and paint. By 1885 he had the million, which he entrusted to his best friend...