Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Domenico Ghirlandajo's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, to still another anonymous collector for $500,000. One of twelve Ghirlandajos in the U. S.. this brilliant picture of the daughter of the great Florentine banking family was considered one of the most important in the entire Morgan collection. It was bought by the elder Morgan in 1907 for one-half of last week's price...
...even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money. When finally reached by the Press. Mr. Morgan frankly explained that he was selling his pictures because he understood that there was a good market for them, and because he was 67 years...
...calls "a good fairy" is aroused in Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) by an astonishing sequence of events. On the day that she is released from a Budapest orphanage, a friendly waiter (Reginald Owen) promises to smuggle her into a ball. At the ball, she meets an amorous plutocrat (Frank Morgan) whose fluttery advances she stalls off only by saying she is married. When Herr Konrad promises to make her husband immediately and fantastically rich, Luisa realizes her golden opportunity. She seizes a telephone book, mumbles an incantation, shuts her eyes and places her finger on the name...
...down before the House of Morgan on the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, Manhattan, marched a big delegation of pacifist picketers one day last week. They were there, according to their placards, to damn the "huge profits of Morgan and his U. S. Steel Corporation." In the process of damning they completely failed to recognize Mr. Morgan in the flesh as the banker came & went for lunch. Day before, it was learned that Mr. Morgan had dipped into his art collection for $1,500,000 in ready cash to help his executors settle his estate, and U. S. Steel...
Rearing a few surprising skyscrapers above the rich alluvium of the Connecticut River is Hartford, capital of the third smallest State in the Union, home of a considerable proportion of the U. S. insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the South was tempted, old Yankee families grew rich and conservative in the manufacture of textiles, tools, machines. When Thomas Alva Edison devised a lamp which never needed filling, the gadget appealed to a good Hartfordian whose fortune had come from linen. With $20,000 capital Austin C. Dunham founded Hartford...