Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself started Bennett in politics twelve years ago when, as Governor, he picked him from political nowhere to be the Democratic nominee for Attorney General. Blue-eyed, smooth-faced, 36-year-old John Bennett had returned from World War I to study law, to work for a J. P. Morgan partner. He had been admitted to the bar only three years before his nomination...
Brash, bumptious Henry Morgan loves nothing more than to curdle the milk of radio's sacred cows. On his 15-minute comic stint, Here's Morgan (WOR, 6:45 p.m., E.W.T., Mon. through Fri.), he worries the stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone...
...Morgan could happen only to Mutual, least hidebound of the networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...
Among the honorary members chosen was Thomas W. Lament '92, chairman of the executive committee of J. P. Morgan Company. At the same time, the following executives were chosen: President, Seth T. Gano '07, of Boston; Vice-President, Fred N. Robinson '91 of Cambridge; Acting Corresponding Secretary, Reginald H. Phelps '30, instructor in German and Assistant Dean of the College; and, Marshal, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...honorary members elected were: Oscar J. Campbell, professor of English, Columbia University; Walter A. Gropius, professor of Architecture, Harvard; Hugh O'N. Hencken, curator of European Archeology, Harvard; Christopher La-Farge, Phi Beta Kappa poet, June, 1942; Thomas W. Lamont '92, chairman of the Executive Committee of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City; Stephen Luce, associate editor, "American Journal of Archaeology"; and Edward A. Whitney, former associate professor of History and Literature, Harvard and member of the staff of the Huntington Library for research in Renaissance History...