Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard Law School graduates among his battery of legal talent. In the preliminary pleadings, Plaintiff Poindexter cited as one of his legal authorities a textbook known as Prosser on Torts. Pooh-poohed...
Editors Frederick Morgan, 25, an ex-G.I., Joseph Bennett, 26, a Navy veteran working as an investment analyst in Wall Street, and William Arrowsmith, 23, a 1948 Rhodes scholar, have been two years launching Hudson Review. As a nonprofit literary venture, they got $6,600 in working capital from friends (who hoped to deduct the contributions from taxes), and for a mailing address used the Manhattan home of Morgan's father, Sapolio Soapmaker John Williams Morgan...
...Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome" which Barnum had christened the first Garden, an abandoned depot of the New York Central & Harlem River Steam Railroad at Madison Avenue. The Barnum spectacles and others went so well that in 1889, Garden Owner William H. Vanderbilt got together with Barnum, J. Pierpont Morgan, and other Manhattan tycoons, tore down the old building and built a new $3,000,000 one. On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves...
Public Stock. In a public sale, J. P. Morgan & Co. got about 600 new stockholders. Investors paid $5,700,000 for 25,000 shares of Morgan stock owned by the late Thomas W. Lamont. The sale raised to 33½% the stock held by the public...
Seaway proponents have hotly accused the big interests--railroads, shipping, and power--of exerting pressure behind the scenes to kill the program each time it came up. After the 1934 battle had been lost, Senator La Follette declared that the opposition was in the hands of J.P. Morgan. On continual guard against governmental power projects, private power companies realize the vast potentialities of the St. Lawrence. In 1921, Alcoa, General Electric, and Du Pont wanted to buy the rights for power development on the river from Ogdensburg, New York, to Montreal. They were willing to throw the navigation...