Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the R. M. S. Queen Mary docked in New York last week, one of her distinguished passengers was W. T. Morgan, news editor of the London Star. Editor Morgan's mission was a carefully planned, 48-hour sightseeing tour of New York City. He had planned it carefully so as to omit nothing of interest. If Editor Morgan's preconception of New York was something between a community playground and an outsized booby-house, he found little to surprise...
...white pompadour and craggy nose bent over his desk, seems surprised when he looks up to find students present. Between classes he rushes back to his office to dictate one of the half-dozen reports, books or articles on which he works at once. Over the fireplace in his Morgan Hall office is a gaudy poster proclaiming: "Vote American Labor Party-Roosevelt-Lehman...
...smooth, 1,200-word column in two hours). Afternoons he rides, fishes, plays golf (fairly), tennis (better), or referees a polo game for his Long Island friends (see cut, p. 45). In the private matter of personal friends, he is more apt to be on intimate terms with Morgan partners than with union leaders. He is himself a member of a union, the American Newspaper Guild, but has paid no dues since it voted to join...
...fast from the days when it was famed under the name Teterboro, hopes for airline patronage, so far has none. The two seaplane "Skyports" in the East River, at 31st Street and the foot of Wall Street, are important private landings which serve such potent business figures as Henry Morgan, Harry P. Davison, Roland Harriman and Rudolph Loening. Other fields-Flushing, Edo, Holmes at Jackson Heights and Jamaica-are important only to manufacturers of aircraft, students, amateurs and taxi services. Newark still dominates metropolitan air facilities, will continue to do so until ousted by LaGuardia's North Beach scheme...
Since then Inventor Sperry has died, his company has gone through numerous corporate changes and Mr. Morgan has held a dozen or so top-notch aviation jobs -president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters...