Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington's Green Mountain Playhouse started doing business last week...
Revelation of how President Roosevelt occupied his spare time last November was made last week by his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early. The late William Forbes Morgan, Mrs. Roosevelt's uncle by marriage and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, brought around to the White House a large box full of sheets of paper. Whenever the President had nothing else to do. he spent his time signing his name on sheet after sheet. By the time he was ready to sail for South America Nov. 17, the whole boxful was used...
...Then Mr. Morgan took the box of paper back and had each sheet bound into a copy of the 350-page Democratic campaign book. This book, in which many businesses had bought advertising space, was sold last year at the Democratic convention for $2.50 a copy. With the President's autograph bound in, the same book, dressed up in leather covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case...
Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
...Crawford, Jr., Arthur K. Dacy, Arthur K. Davis, W. Tucker Dean, Jr., Samuel L. Feder, Bennett Frankel, James J. Fuld, Chadbourne Gilpatric, Stephen Helburn, Thomas C. Hunt, Joseph S. Isoman, John S. Kelly, Ben D. Kimpel, Edward O. Miller, James G. Miller, Lionel F. Miller, Jr., Edmund S. Morgan, Laird M. Ogle, John A. O' Keofe, Thomas L. Perry, Jr., Gerard J. Piel, Melvin Richter, Arthur M. Rosenbloom, Leonard J. Rosenfeld, Simon M. Rosenfield, Paul T. Rotter, Williah E. Rowley, Wheeler Sammons, Jr., Joseph Share, Robert F. Sharp, Joseph A. Sherrard, Jr., Philip A. Straus, Herbert Tabor, Cheves T. Walling...