Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biggest animal art show last week was put on by the dignified, Victorian-upholstered Pierpont Morgan Library, which elbows Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers like a Brewster barouche in a traffic jam of taxis. Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their...
...patriotic duty. Last week in Manhattan, at the annual session of the Academy of Political Science, a businessman who is a specialist on Japan spoke some far-reaching words. That Banker Thomas Lament's words would be heard in Tokyo seemed certain, for the House of Morgan was once U. S. banker for Japan. That some of his words would suggest to Japanese how they looked to Western eyes also seemed certain: "I have made many friends in China and scores in Japan, some of the latter, because of their liberal views, having alas! met death at the hands...
...sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked the U. S. "war party" from J. P. Morgan's to Communist headquarters and back. Last week Quincy Howe, his Anglophobia somewhat chastened since France and Chamberlain fell, sped his mercurial mind over the whole field of war news...
...candidates who are listed are: William J. Bingham, Director of Physical Education at Harvard; Laurence Curtis, lawyer and state senator; Henry L. F. Kreger, Lawyer; Charles C. Lund, surgeon; David P. Morgan, Chemical executive; Ernest W. Soucy, banker; James Talcott, executive; and Donald C. Watson, banker...
...semi-final round of the Law School's Ames Competition, the Scott Club won its ease over the Morgan James Club in their last night. The finals will be held in December...