Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than two years ago, he was by January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat and to, at once, give the order to advance...
Throughout the volume, the bankers are in for the castigation which one would expect of an administration sympathizer. An amazing comparison, of the investigation of the House of Morgan with an investigation of Tammany enlivens the book. Similar characteristics are observed in the following pairs; J. P. Morgan and John F. Curry (simple honest belief in the "system"), George W. Whitney and James J. Walker (plausibility and simple thought), Thomas W. Lamont and John W. Delaney (astuteness), Otto H. Kahn and John H. McGooey (affable admission of error...
Under the auspices of the Liberal Club Clarence Darrow will speak at 7.45 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall Saturday evening. The title of Mr. Darrow's speech will be, "Is There A Criminal Justice?" Edmund M. Morgan, Bussey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, will introduce the speaker who will be entertained at a private dinner before the lecture. Mr. Darrow spoke here a few years ago to a packed hall which he raised to a fever pitch of excitement by his oratory. This lecture on Saturday will be closed to everyone except members...
Wall Street wags last week insisted that the only reason the House of Morgan took in no new partners on Jan. 1 was that the firm could find no one who would join. The Senate Banking & Currency investigation, they said, had stripped all glamour from a Morgan partnership. But admittance of a new Morgan partner is by no means an annual event. Last one to sign the articles of copartnership was Charles Denston Dickey two years...
Critics never sharpen their pencils until after the opening night, so Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson passed as a patriotic gesture. Like the openings which have gone before, the Metropolitan's 1933-34 season began as a social spectacle. Chief interest seemed to be that John Pierpont Morgan was there, rabid on the subject of photographers; that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was wearing a diamond stomacher; and that Emil Katz, the Metropolitan's caterer who during Prohibition bought William K. Vanderbilt's cellar for $70,000, was selling champagne again, for $2.50 a glass...