Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began as just another brass hat's press conference. UNRRA's boss in Germany, Lieut. General Sir Frederick Edgworth Morgan, wanted to discuss a problem: the thousands of Jews who were streaming out of Poland into Germany...
Next day's newspapers quoted Morgan as saying: "They certainly do not look like persecuted people. [They are] well dressed, well-fed, rosy-cheeked, and have plenty of money. ... I believe they have a plan ... to get out of Europe...
That did it. Professional protesters cleared their throats and gave tongue. As the hysteria mounted and the astonished General shinnied up the nearest tree, the angry clamor drowned out the less exciting things, that Morgan had also said. Prominent Jews shrieked: "Savors of Naziism . . . palpably anti-Semitic ... an outrageous libel. . . ." Comedian Eddie Cantor bought two full columns of advertising space in the New York Times (price: $660) to shout in 12-point type...
...General Morgan, he was an able administrator and officer (as deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, he had helped plan the Normandy invasion), but he sometimes talked too much. Said a correspondent: "His foot and his mouth have a great affinity." UNRRA asked him to resign. Morgan refused...
Died. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, 79, shy, Nobel Prizewinning (1933) geneticist whose studies of the quick-breeding fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) culminated in an epochal hypothesis: the existence of genes - submicroscopic determinants of heredity; in Pasadena...