Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your obvious bias against the U. S. S. R. is your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...
...estate he walled to his two sons, Charles and James. McCormicks and Deerings were forever making overtures toward consolidation, but the first generation was too independent. It was 1902 when William Deering's son Charles and Cyrus Hall McCormick II finally came to terms over a J. P. Morgan table in Manhattan. Result: International Harvester Co., which gave McCormicks a 43% interest, Deerings a 34% interest in a near-monopoly of the world's harvester business.* Charles was chairman until 1910. When he retired Deerings took back seats. James died a bachelor in 1925. He had endowed Chicago...
Actually Mr. Morgan was doing no more than demonstrating how a male oldster can enjoy his leisure, for the Committee did not require his personal reappearance. He attended that session only because, as he said: "These things are important to me. I don't know so much about the details as the others, but I am responsible. Besides, I didn't want to miss the party...
Next day he again voluntarily returned to the Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
Last Labor Day 233 unhappy vacationists bound from New Orleans to New York aboard the S. S. Dixie found themselves caught between life and death when a hurricane grounded that Morgan liner on French Reef in the Florida Keys (TIME, Sept. 16). Next morning in Washington President Roosevelt, master of the psychological moment, announced that $5,000,000 in relief money would be spent in starting a trans-Florida ship canal that would forever make it unnecessary for seagoers to risk their lives in circumnavigating Florida's long, hurricane-blistered thumb...