Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan last week visited his native Ontario, inspected that province's public power system, got a new idea for his own underprivileged valley: electrically operated cold-storage plants where farmers can store their produce before selling...
...morning last week a group of Manhattan underwriters met in a light, breezy room of Morgan Stanley & Co. at No. 2 Wall Street. That afternoon a Morgan Stanley syndicate was to begin selling the biggest foreign bond issue since April 1937-$25,000,000 in 4 ½%, ten-year Argentine bonds. Having already spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were...
Next day he fished for the last time this trip, off Providence Island, historic base of piratical Sir Henry Morgan. Thence the Houston weighed anchor for Pensacola, politics and national problems...
...tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order to avoid the indignity of going to work as a ditchdigger...
...Pecora investigation of Wall Street in 1933, upon the House of Morgan's "preferred list" of friends for special treatment in the issuance of securities, appeared the names of Pennsylvania's Chief Justice John W. Kephart and Justice William I. Schaffer...