Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas William Lamont, longtime partner & spokesman of the House of Morgan, addressed to the New York Times a column-long letter in refutation of the current thesis that his firm's financial enlistment with the Allies helped mightily to draw the U. S. into the War. Taking off from a repetition of that thesis by R. L. Duffus in a Times review of Harold Nicolson's biography of the late Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow (TIME, Oct. 7), Partner Lamont argued...
...Peabody was 27 when, with two Boston friends, Sherrard Billings and William Amory Gardner, he founded Groton. Born in Salem, he had spent his own school and university days at Cheltenham and Cambridge in England where his father was a partner in the British branch of the House of Morgan. Returning to the U. S., he studied theology, became an Episcopal deacon (later priest) and built the first school building, Brooks House, in the little town of Groton, 45 miles from Boston...
...Warren Delano Robbins, Ellery Sedgwick and Percy Haughton, the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector?" Last year the school was 50 years old. Its alumni had grown to include Arthur Train, Sumner Welles, E. Roland Harriman, F. Trubee Davison, Dean Acheson, Junius S. & Henry S. Morgan, Oliver LaFarge. Again the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector...
...asked SEC for better definitions. Last week for the first, time since the Securities Act became effective, an advertisement for a new issue appeared in the oldtime form of a one-page prospectus. The firm that plunged with an offering of $45,000,000 Illinois Bell Telephone bonds was Morgan Stanley & Co., underwriting offshoot of the House of Morgan. Meticulously the Morgan advertisement referred readers to the offering prospectus and the registration statement "which also include important information not outlined or indicated herein...
...stars of the author's side show, with Communism cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords and Masters is that in all parts of the world individuals about whom...