Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President in 1924, Morgan attorney, a high-minded and thoroughly conservative Democrat...
...Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression, long eclipsed in fashion by younger stores, was turned over to a board of trustees. They were glad of a chance to sell the store lock, stock & barrel to two Jews named Maurice Levin and Jacob M. Kaplan, who promptly set about putting...
John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed...
Once with 1,500 men Morgan attacked a Federal garrison of 2,500, got clean away with 1,800 prisoners, some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...