Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misquotation, as J. P. Morgan meaningfully pointed out to.his partner Thomas W. Lamont in 1936 when Lamont made a slip before the Nye Investigation Committee. The correct quote: "The love of money is the root of all evil" (I Timothy...
...other successful program, Leave It to the Girls (Mutual, Sat. 9 p.m., E.D.S.T.), also proves that she knows how to make people talk on the air. This 14-month-old show follows the same unrehearsed technique, pitting fast talkers like Henry Morgan against four career girls. Questions submitted by listeners, mostly about love and marriage, set off a series of ad-lib crackers. Example...
...done well in the first five months of this year, said he cheerfully. It had grossed $27,500,000 against last year's $17,000,000. But in the future, said Juan Trippe smoothly, Pan Am would not have the services of two top officials: Thomas Alfred Morgan, board chairman of Sperry Corp. and former head of Pan Am's executive committee, and Samuel Sloan Colt, president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. They had declined to stand for re-election as directors...
...trouncing Lowell 20 to 8 yesterday, in a free-swinging contest which found fielding and pitching at a low ebb. Dick Steuer twirled for the Funsters and did not fare too badly on the earned-run count. Several Dunster four-baggers were tainted with errors afield, while Bob Morgan poled out a prodigious homer for the losers with one mate aboard...
...London gaunt, shy U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant never gave a party unless he had to. He lived in a quiet house in Mayfair and turned his magnificent Morgan-donated Prince's Gate mansion into a dormitory for girl clerks...