Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invaluable record of the national financial crisis faced by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton during the first George Washington administration, said to be the only item of its kind not contained in the archives of the United States Government, has been donated by J. Pierpont Morgan '89, as the latest addition to the Business School Library, which already contains the world's most extensive collection of manuscripts relating to the economic and business development of the United States...
...stubs of the Morgan volume contain the names of a score of prominent Revolutionary figures, among whom are Andrew Craigie, apothecary-general of the Revolutionary Army; Edward Livingston, the distinguished jurist; Brockholst, Livingston, a prominent figure in American legal life and later Justice of the Supreme Court; Joseph Barrell and James Watson, noted New York merchants; Comfort Sands, founder of the Atlantic Magazine and co-editor with William Cullon Bryant; and John Pintard, a book collector who founded the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies...
Last week the Florida dog-racing season reached its peak. At the Biscayne Kennel Club, where Vincent Lopez' orchestra plays and Helen Morgan sings, a skinny, long-backed hound named Crafty Boy won the Florida Derby, most important greyhound race. At the West Flagler track a brindle puppy named George Elfrink won the season's major juvenile race, the $2,000 Nursery Stakes...
...cronies are Steelman Myron Taylor, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Fabulous stories surround his passion for outdoor life. He owns four miles of trout stream in New York's gamey Beaver Kill, issued gold-engraved membership cards to a half-dozen friends. In North Carolina "Joe" Knapp owns Knotts Island, a 5,000-acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian...
...Jack-of-all-Trades and have succeeded, as is inevitable, in making him master of none. Clark may be a good, or relatively so, man about town, but as a city editor he is miscast to say the least. The days of newspaper publishers offices which look like J.P. Morgan's private sanctum are yet to exist, as is the day when a city editor has a trick dictaphone loudspeaker to call...