Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan Man. The House of Morgan got a new chairman, Russell C. Leffingwell, 69, a Morgan partner since 1923, a director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc. since its incorporation in 1940. He succeeded the late Thomas W. Lamont. President George Whitney, Morgan's operating head since 1940, continues in the same...
...Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe the technique of a brilliantly smart operator...
...social snobs, Runyon (who spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...
Other principals in the HTW cast, chosen from the 80 students who appeared at tryouts, are; Frank Cammusun as Messenger; Edward A. Callan, Jr. as First Priest; Miles Morgan '50 as Second Priest; and Dibble Neuhans as Third Priest...
Died. Thomas William Lament, 77, financier, philanthropist, chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan & Co.; after long illness; in Boca Grande, Fla. Brilliant, quiet-spoken Tom Lamont worked his way through Harvard, rose to a Morgan partnership at 41. Once a reporter (New York Tribune, 1893-94), he continued to be fascinated by printer's ink, lost heavily in four years as owner of the New York Evening Post, backed the Saturday Review of Literature for 14 years, wrote one book of his own (My Boyhood in a Parsonage). Following World War I he shuttled about the world...