Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy faces a suit which Italian courts usually decide by awarding the ousted staffman damages amounting to half his yearly salary, plus an extra month's pay for every year of his service before he was "fired." On the basis of this law, Correspondent Thomas B. ("Tom") Morgan was considered by his Rome colleagues last week to have excellent chances of collecting from United Press half a year's salary, plus one month's salary for each of the twelve years he has served with that news service, plus other compensation under the Charter of Labor...
United Press broke with Newshawk Morgan on Oct. 1, replacing him as Rome manager with G. Stewart Brown. When the imminence of war seemed to multiply his value as the Rome correspondent closest to Il Duce who had made him a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy years before, Tom Morgan tried to get his salary multiplied. Getting the sack instead, he is thought to have a routine testimonial to his good work and many scoops of the past twelve years. Such a document, under Italy's Labor Charter, is prime evidence on the crucial issue...
...Morgan affair last week was significant because it pointed up sharply a major Fascist fact, seldom realized outside Italy, namely that under the Charter of Labor the proletariat of Italy is guaranteed rights so drastic that Capital must frequently pay through the nose. Not only journalists, though they are the most pampered, but Italian workers generally see that while Fascism has made striking a crime, it also punishes with heavy cash damages an employer who simply "fires" an employe because he feels like firing...
...banks can no longer have investment affiliates, but U. S. bankers are still ready to take the risks & profits of a general securities business. Last week some officials of Chicago's $165,000,000 Harris Trust & Savings Bank, following the example of two J. P. Morgan partners, organized Harris, Hall & Co. to underwrite and distribute corporation securities. Head of the new company is Edward Bigelow Hall, a vice president of the Harris bank. Associated with him are Norman Harris (grandson of the Harris founder, son of the Harris chairman); Lahman V. Bower and Julien H. Collins, both Harris bank...
...Wood '37; Robert M. Briggs '37; Robert C. Holcombe '37; Bruce K. Fuller '26; Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. '36; Austin W. Scott, Jr. '37; Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '36; Robert W. Scott, Jr. '38; Floyd K. Haskell '37; Charles S. Kelley, 3rd. '36; Donald C. Sleeper '38; H. Vaughan Morgan, Jr. '37; James J. Thackera '36; Whitney G. Case '36; and William Lawrence '37, managers