Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something to do with the amusement business. So the picture, which takes its name from a truncated Russian mandolin, the balalaika, includes not only fatuously lovable grand dukes and musicians, but downright sinister Bolsheviks. It also includes Baritone Nelson Eddy, the Russian Cossack Choir, an excellent cast (Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Charles Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith) and a lot of gorgeous clothing and sets...
...white marble vastness of the U. S. Senate office building caucus room, one day last week, sat lean, grey Harold Stanley. Head of Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., No. 1 U. S. investment house, he had gone to Washington to be questioned by the Temporary National Economic Committee in its inquiry into investment banking. Earlier the committee had heard hard-boiled Charles E. Mitchell, onetime head of Manhattan's National City Bank, later tried and acquitted of charges of income tax evasion (but forced to settle a Government lien for $1,384,222, taxes and penalties), who is now board...
...Wall Street group (including such firms as Kuhn, Loeb, Lee Higginson, First Boston) which has frigidly rejected competition. When such competition-minded houses as Chicago's Halsey, Stuart, such individuals as Cleveland's Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton, walk in the front door with bids for securities issues, Morgan Stanley & friends stalk out the side exit...
...went the big, capable hand of Leon Henderson. Competitive bidding, said he, would be discussed later. Harold Stanley persisted, for well he knew that when TNEC gets into competitive bidding, such insurgents as Cyrus Eaton and Alleghany Corp.'s unruly Bob Young may get the first say, put Morgan Stanley & Co. on the defensive with tail-end statements in news stories...
...willing and happy to receive the letter." While Leon Henderson glowered, Witness Stanley handed out his attack on compulsory competitive bidding, which he and other investment brokers can see as a likely outgrowth of SEC's investigation. Next day it led the TNEC story in metropolitan newspapers. The Morgan Stanley thesis...