Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II stopped projected borrowings from abroad. But Dr. Swarzenski effectively panhandled U. S. museums, dealers and collectors, even persuaded such a confirmed non-lender as J. P. Morgan to ship some treasures temporarily to Boston...
Down the hill from Lawrence's grave, where the head of Broad Street nudges Wall Street's pinched bosom, stands the sedate seven-story building of J. P. Morgan & Co., its marble walls still pitted from the famed bomb explosion of Sept. 16, 1920. There last week a tradition no less glamorous than wooden ships, more weighty in world history than the U. S. Navy, symbolically died and was buried. Dust with Lawrence was the personal liability of its partners for the debts of J. P. Morgan & Co.; on April 1 and thenceforth it will...
...Europe have been told already. Although carried almost to the ridiculous, the plot on the whole is well-handled, and allows for some spontaneous acting by a cast that does everything required of it. Sheldon Leouard as Officer Finkelstein is the only part with real guts. But Doris Dudley, Morgan Farley and Kurt Ketch supply enough clues and alibis to make their presence worth while. "Margin For Error" is not brilliant mystery nor complete satire; but working with both, Clare Boothe has provided another fair evening...
...Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props...
...copper, wheat, gasoline in New York, reputedly still looking for rubber and tin. Its head, stocky, forceful K. I. Lukashov, former president of Leningrad University, was also moving his busy staff to new and larger quarters at No. 210 Madison Ave. (diagonally opposite the home of J. P. Morgan...