Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap...
EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL - Lewis Henry Morgan-Rochester Historical So- ciety...
...night go-odd years ago, a group of wild young rapscallions broke into a Masonic temple in Cayuga County, N. Y., put on the ceremonial robes and organized a mock secret society. One of these young limbs was an eloquent, enterprising Union College graduate named Lewis Henry Morgan. A crusading teetotaler but a hard smoker and poker player who had leisure for such japes because hard times kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies...
...results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave for the first time "the real structure and principles of the League of the Iroquois." The book launched him on a career that made him ''the father of American anthropology" and "the greatest sociologist of the last century...
Another result was that Morgan paradoxically became a conservative, straitlaced, churchgoing U. S. businessman, withal a radical hero. Friedrich Engels, after reading Morgan's studies of primitive man, corrected The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels drew on Morgan's findings on primitive family relationships in writing The Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block...