Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dawson, Wallace, Morgan, Sleeper, Knox, Thackara, Kellogg, and R. Scott went in to earn their letters for Harvard...
Definite they were. The Assembly candidate whom Jim Farley was "particularly anxious" to see win was trounced by Republican Laurens H. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J. P. Morgan. Brother Tom, for whose success Brother Jim was equally if not so openly anxious, took a licking not from a Republican but from his anti-Farley rival. Bellowed Haverstraw Supervisor Shankey: "Against me I had the Postmaster General, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and I licked them all. Jim came here yesterday, visited every polling place...
...Arthur E. Morgan's Presidency of Antioch College approaches its fifteenth year. From an institution which sixteen years ago had an annual budget of $15,000 and held less than fifty students, Antioch has been expanded to include 650 students, and has an annual budget of about $400,000. This phenomenal growth has continued through the depression...
Unfortunately the reasons for this college's success hold very little suggestion for the improvement of Harvard College. The idea, in Dr. Morgan's works, was that Antioch should be "concerned with the development of the entire personality of the student in good proportion." To temper academic studies with the discipline and responsibilities of actual life, students spend half their time studying only, and the other half at practical work, generally a job in some business outside the college...
...back and a few frank words. A cloud gathered at the panic of 1907, soon disappeared. "Oh, but we had a stern captain in 1907; it was during those days of strain that I discovered for myself what an admirable intelligence gleamed through the fierce eyes of J. Pierpont Morgan.'' More trouble threatened during the War. when National City plans for financing a French loan collided with the plans of the House of Morgan. A frank talk, a slap on the back and this misunderstanding was clarified. Only William Rockefeller, whose "velvety politeness . . . marked a character accustomed...