Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four American Field Service men, led by Donald Q. Coster* of Montreal, last week despite warnings dashed back into Amiens for another rescue, fell into the hands of advancing German tank units. A second, part of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps's John J. Pershing Section, answered Anne Morgan's urgent call for help in evacuating civilians from the Ardennes, were last seen somewhere north of German-occupied Rethel. At week's end, in addition to Lawrence A. Jump, reported killed last fortnight near Sarreguemines, eight young American drivers were missing, two others were wounded...
Three years ago Adman Raymond Ritchie Morgan approached James Folger of San Francisco, with the rummage sale notion-"the hottest idea I've hit in years"-to sell Mr. Folger's coffee. Coffeeman Folger was impressed when one of the first items disposed of on the program was Mr. Folger's speed boat ($800). The following year, when the air time was expanded to 15 minutes over CBS station KNX, the telephone response put the Hollywood, Hempstead and Hillside exchanges out of order, burned out the generator which operated the busy signal on one, caused the telephone...
...speaks of Harvard as the most articulate pro-Ally university. Then he attempts to discover who controls Harvard in order to find a rational basis for the interventionist speeches of its President and some of its professors. Lo and behold, the House of Morgan becomes the major bogeyman because of its supposed control of the Corporation and Overseers since the turn of the century. Granted this conclusion, which cannot be factually substantiated, then President Conant must whip up moral enthusiasm behind intervention in order to protect foreign investments and thus maintain or increase endowments. Harvard and other universities...
...belief that we fought the last war for the House of Morgan with its corollary--British propaganda--is widespread. It caused the Nye munitions investigation which resulted in such heavy war-time taxes that no profits will be made in future wars. It is the backbone of the recent Student Union broadside. Historians, however, would dispute this reasoning. They would say that British propaganda had some influence, though it was small west of the Mississippi, and everywhere only activated those who were already pro-Ally. They would point to the American diplomatic blunders which forced us into war over...
...Despite a bearish pounding taken by the stockmarket, an investment banking syndicate headed by Wall Street's Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. sold most of a $75,000,000 issue of U. S. Steel debentures in one day, but still had about $7,000,000 of them left at week...