Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Reef. Scheduled to sail from New Orleans to New York at 11 a.m., the 8,000-ton Southern Pacific-Morgan Liner Dixie waited until 6 p. m. for 25 vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap...
...West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service's Watertown. So did the Dixie's southbound sister Morgan ship El Occidente. From the shore the Coast Guard cutters Saukee and Carrabasset, with breeches buoy and Lyle guns, steamed for the Dixie. Help was at hand, if Captain Sundstrom could keep his ship from going to pieces before...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius was supposed to have been hand-picked as a likely future head for U. S. Steel...
Macdonald Wright was born in Charlottesville, Va. in 1890, went first to Santa Monica when he was 11. At 15 he and his brother Willard were expelled from school. The next year found young Wright an art student in Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition...