Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than good direction. There are excellent performances by Jean Gabin as the deserting soldier; Michele Morgan as his wide-eyed mistress; and particularly Michele Simon as the pathological toy-merchant who kills and mutilates because of an unnatural love for his ward. In addition, there is an outstanding gallery of minor characters--each strikingly delineated and yet kept in proportion...
...House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
...Senate Munitions committee in 1934-35-Nye, Bone, Clark, Vandenberg, Pope, George, Barbour-implicitly believe that World War I was engineered by and run for the benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the munitions-makers whom they dubbed "merchants of death." And last week, on an unguarded flank of the Roosevelt Administration, whose big guns for six years have boomed denunciations of "princes of privilege," "entrenched greed," "wolves of Wall Street," "money-barons," etc., etc., they found a rich ammunition dump: at the head of the all-important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head...
...with Europe blowing itself into a lost civilization, with the backlash of our own frontier expansion playing havoc with our economic traditions, free enterprise in the glorious world of business seems to have lost its glamor. The bulls and the bears that once roamed The Street have been harnessed. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller are fast growing into legends of another age. And the eyes of the bewildered undergraduate look for security instead of pots of gold at the end of every rainbow of fantastic speculation...
Died. Charles Michael Schwab, 77, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. From counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia...