Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yalemen made merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury...
...Clara-which still has to play Texas Christian this week-as its opponent for the "championship of the U. S." Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the country's "outstanding football player" by New York's Downtown Athletic Club, went to Yale's Right End Lawrence Morgan Kelley...
...Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with a stiff right to the mouth...
...backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding company for the Van Sweringens. What the Brothers Van Sweringen got was a 10-year option on a controlling block of Midamerica common stock, together with the right to vote it in the meantime...
...propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson of Philadelphia's big Lit Brothers department store, and a onetime Morgan partner, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania...