Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, and in particular of his noble idea which in a more or less butchered fashion serves as the theme of the story. A man finds completion of life through anonymous benefaction. Although the idea fails to be put across much except in a few philosophical sprinklings by Ralph Morgan, people who like pictures with a message may derive consideration throughout of what course the development of the theme might have followed...
...Montreal last week Sir Edward Beatty, chancellor (chairman of the board of governors) of McGill University, announced the appointment of the first U. S. citizen ever to head that Canadian institution. The new principal, succeeding British Arthur Eustace Morgan, who resigned last spring after a little more than a year in the post, was Lewis Williams Douglas, 43, President Roosevelt's first Director of the Budget. Since his resignation in 1934 in protest against New Deal spending, Mr. Douglas had devoted himself to warnings against his old chief and to his duties as vice president and director of American...
Perhaps unfortunately for the world outlook of the readers of the Star, Editor Morgan's visit to the U. S. coincided in time and place with the 19th annual convention of the American Legion. Unfortunately for the Legion its goings-on in Manhattan promised to spoil the entertainment at many a future convention, for having tied up traffic at Times Square by lying down and shooting craps upon Broadway's car tracks, what real amusement can Legionnaires hope for from tying up the traffic of less frequented crossroads...
Back in Circulation (First National) should please cinemaddicts who admire portrayals of brash reporters and nail-hard editors whose presses must be fed regardless of human cost. This time the brazen star reporter is a female named Timmy Blake (Joan Blondell). She loves her apparently unconcerned managing editor, Bill Morgan (Pat O'Brien). He loves her too but has no time for foolishness. Between the first sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook...
...official responsibilities would prevent him from holding office or taking an active part in the foundation, but hinted that he might like to become its head after leaving the White House. The Foundation's personnel was not disclosed last week, but it was generally supposed that Keith Morgan and Basil O'Connor, both top men at Warm Springs, would occupy high posts...