Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these three general prospects, Edmund M. Morgan, acting Dean of the Law School, yesterday discussed the "four year bugaboo" which, with the omnipresent increase in the subject matter of law, increasingly troubles Law School and University heads...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
Well qualified for his job is 53-year-old Front Man Morgan. He has an Oxford accent, a pretty wife, entree to both the House of Morgan and the White House, the former because he is J. P. Morgan's nephew, the latter because his deceased first wife was Mrs. Roosevelt's aunt and because he was Democratic treasurer in the last campaign. An investment banker by trade, Mr. Morgan went to Washington in 1933 as deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration, met & married 23-year-old Sarah Jackson Coonley whose father was secretary of the Democratic...
...Spirits Institute feels it must solve and formulate were apparently considered by the industry as too "broad" to be handled by plugging, business-like Dr. James M. Doran. executive secretary who wet-nursed the business through the ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty to her partner, Fay Cheyney rings the burglar...