Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Pierpont Morgan took his first airplane ride...
...them. The drive through the park ended at the White House at 12:55 p.m. Meantime, the White House police had been busy with six Johnny Jones Exposition midgets and a pressagent who were shooed away before they could emulate the little lady who perched on J. Pierpont Morgan's knee at a Senate hearing five years ago (TIME, June...
...Court's lesson in sporting simplicities was included in a finding that the Secretary of Agriculture had arbitrarily and improperly fixed maximum rates to be charged by the Fred 0. Morgan Sheep Commission Co., of Kansas City. Mo. Attorney for Fred O. Morgan was persuasive Frederick Hill Wood of the potent Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued down NRA and the first Guffey Coal Control Act. Arguing for Fred 0. Morgan, Mr. Wood contended that the Secretary had issued his order without a complete knowledge of the facts gathered by subordinates, had erred in denying...
Famed Banker Thomas William Lamont last week fidgeted on the witness stand for two hours in Washington. He was trying to tell SEC Lawyer Gerhard Gesell (whose 28 years of age precisely equalled the period Mr. Lamont has worked for J. P. Morgan & Co.) why he had told nobody about it when he learned last November that Broker Richard Whitney was not only insolvent but also guilty of using customers' funds illegally. When his partner, George Whitney, came to him to borrow $1,082,000 to help his brother Dick "out of a jam," explained Mr. Lamont. "I moved...
...relentlessly pushed its investigation of the Richard Whitney failure, the famed name of Thomas W. Lament for the first time entered the case. Testifying in Washington, Morgan-Partner George Whitney revealed that he had borrowed from Morgan-Partner Lamont the $1,082,000 which he loaned his brother Richard last November to enable him to return securities of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund. Said he: "I told him [Lamont] that my brother was in a jam. ... I told him the general terms." Thus added to the record was the name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position...