Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...
...yarn about the gambler who combined good luck at the board with a full house in the boudoir, the film moves smoothly along paced by the tangy dialogue taken straight from the gaming tables. Some of the best scenes involve Jimmy Gleason, Hollywood's finest con-man, bluffing Frank Morgan, no sucker himself--while various types of bait get their just dues...
...sued Ball, and collected $4,000,000 (including Ball's Alleghany holdings) from him on the grounds that even the low price of the $2 billion empire had been rigged too high. Then Bob Young persuaded the ICC to order rail securities sold at competitive bidding, thus knocking Morgan, Stanley & Co. and other New York bond houses which had fought to bar Young from Alleghany out of much fat business once given them by friendly railroads. By then Young's sandy hair had turned white and his self-esteem had become somewhat Napoleonic...
Chairman Vanderbilt gave him trouble, Bob Young thought he could take care of him. Said he: ''He's a good friend of mine, but in this business he's a mere child." As for Morgan, Stanley, which Bob Young persists in calling the Morgan crowd, although they have no direct connection with the bank, he snorted:'"If they start another fight they ought to have their heads examined. If I can't get along with these fellows this time, I'll make a twentieth-rate bank out of the Morgan bank...
...troubles boiled furiously, Bob Young spent most of last week in the piny woods of northern Florida, expertly banging away at quail. He was the guest of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr. on her 13,000-acre Horseshoe Plantation. The Baker family has been associated with the House of Morgan for several decades, but Young is often the best of social friends with his business enemies. His hunting companions at the Baker estate were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with whom Young and his wife are on first-name terms. The Windsors are spending the rest of the season with...