Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Banker Morgan: "I want to deny in the most clear manner that I can that such a thing was ever thought of by us or done by us at any time in any way. That is one of the discreditable actions which is foreign to our history and it is foreign to our tradition, and we never did such a thing in our lives." Fortunately for the Morgan partners, a cablegram showed that they had offered the British a credit of up to $100,000,000 to help keep sterling from slipping...
...with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated as a warmonger second only to Kaiser Wilhelm? Did U. S. blood on the fields of France save his financial skin...
...early as Aug. 3, 1914, Morgan & Co. received a cablegram from Rothschild Freres of Paris suggesting a loan of $100,000,000 to France. Morgan answered that because of exchange conditions, they could not make the loan and would not do so, in any event, without the U. S. Government's consent. In answer to an inquiry from Morgan & Co. Secretary of State Bryan then announced that loans by U. S. bankers to any belligerent nation would be inconsistent with the country's "true spirit of neutrality." Two months later Mr. Vanderlip told French Ambassador Jusserand that National...
Said Senator Clark: "I think that when Morgan & Co. stepped out from under and permitted the sterling exchange to flop, pressure was brought to bear on McAdoo...
...long historical documents were read, as the examination rambled over them without startling disclosures, as day by day the evidence showed no visible connection between the House of Morgan and Secretaries McAdoo and Lansing, who alone appeared to have urged President Wilson to let war loans be floated in the U. S., the Press grew disgusted with the whole proceeding. Between sessions newshawks flocked around the old financier, who was the soul of amiability in answering questions and posing for photographs. Finally one morning when, as oldsters will, Mr. Morgan closed his eyes and quietly dozed off during the proceedings...