Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan, Jr. '89 has given Widener 86 volumes of the works of Thomas Hearne, an English antiquarian of the 18th century...
...case of Mr. Grew, though he is a Republican and cousin-by-marriage to J. P. Morgan, there is no incongruity whatever that he should be the President by a routine feat of diplomatic ectoplasm. Both men are Old Grotonians who have called each other "Joe" and "Frank" since boyhood. Both, too, are the rich sons of landed squires who sent them to Harvard as a matter of course. Yet the Forgotten Man is passionately sure that "Frank" Roosevelt remembers him. and "Joe" Grew has a like reputation among local U. S. residents of all classes wherever he has held...
Grew prestige was not exactly of the kind to impress two-fisted President T. R. Roosevelt. Wires from Boston were pulled in vain. Joseph's efforts to be sent with Minister Edwin Morgan to Korea, then the hot spot Japan is today, landed him as a consular clerk in Cairo...
...fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...
...never been formally interviewed. He may have won his millions in the citadel of conservative Republicanism but he has never lost his standing as a good Democrat. To the nation's bankers Jackson Eli Reynolds is an awesome figure astride the highest peak in the mountain range of Morgan banks...