Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heirs of the great J. P. Morgan chase a widow around Europe and hunt down theater tickets? See BUSINESS, The Big Banker...
...whose views were most eagerly sought is a tall (6 ft. i in.), slim (160 Ibs.), handsome New Yorker named Henry Clay Alexander. At 57, Alexander is chairman of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and perhaps the nation's most prestigious banker. He is heir to the famed tradition of the House of Morgan, which created huge industrial firms, bailed out whole governments and at the turn of the century all but controlled the financial destiny of the U.S. Morgan is still a name to conjure with. Its famed building at 23 Wall St. is known throughout...
Henry Alexander's prestige does not depend on tradition alone; it rests on what he has done to rescue the House of Morgan from decline and restore it once more to the first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty...
Even in view of Fitzgerald's absence, the varsity's debacle comes as a severe shock. Tiger coach Pete Morgan last night called his squad's showing "a pleasant surprise," but the "pleasant" part was all Princeton's. Fitzgerald had better recover soon...
Dick McIntosh will pair with Ekpebu at wing, and John Mudd will be the other inside. The halfback line of Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele should give Jerbasi and his partners at least an even battle, and Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan at fullback will take some of the sting from the Penn attack. Still harboring the memory of his 1957 varsity baptism, when Penn tallied four times in one period against him, goalie Tom Bagnoli will be hard to score on this morning...