Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ADELE BARBARA MORGAN...
Sympathizers with France appear to outnumber the British specialists. J. P. Morgan's maiden sister Anne sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets...
Last week Otto, as the "Duc de Bar," flew from Lisbon to the U. S. on "a pleasure tour." He was reported to have made only one business appointment (J. P. Morgan) and to have accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation...
Died. James Morgan Hutton Sr., 70, senior partner of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co., investment bankers; of heart disease; in his Manhattan office...
Realistically facing changed conditions in wealth, society and musical appreciation, J. P. Morgan last December advised the Metropolitan Opera Company to buy the Opera House from its socialite landlords and surrender the Diamond Horseshoe to the plebs...