Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan H. Sohn...
Arthur W. Allen, lecturer in Surgery; William Lloyd Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Walter Bauer, associate professor of Medicine; Kenneth D. Blackfan, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; Herrman L. Blumgart '17, associate professor of Medicine; Dean Burwell, research professor of Clinical Medicine; Allen M. Butler, associate in Pedriatrics; Cannon; William B. Castle '17, associate professor of Medicine; Henry A. Christian '03, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic; Stanley Cobb '10, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology; Bronson Crothers '05, assistant professor of Pedriatics; Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley Professor of Surgery, James L. Gamble, professor...
...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
...Maudlin's thesis of Morgan control was supported not by evidence of security ownership but by the debatable theory of interlocking directorships-i. e. if a Morgan partner sits on the board of Guaranty Trust and a Guaranty Trust official sits on the board of a coal company, then the House of Morgan controls the coal company-not to mention the Guaranty Trust. But Governor Earle promptly opened up on "the witch doctors of Wall Street...
Meantime in Manhattan denials popped from nearly every important banking door. A sweeping Morgan denial took in almost everything short of War guilt. Chairman Jackson Reynolds of Manhattan's First National ("The Baker Bank"), an articulate banker, cracked: "A newspaper states that the author of the report is Maudlin. It seems to me that the report also is accurately characterized as maudlin...