Word: morgans
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Died. George Whitney, 77, financier, knowledgeable partner of J. P. Morgan between the wars and first president of J. P. Morgan, Inc. from 1940 to 1950, a polished Bostonian who came out of investigations into the stock market crash with a clean slate (unlike his brother Richard, former president of the Stock Exchange, who was convicted of embezzlement), after World War II started Morgan on diversification that led to its 1959 merger with Guaranty Trust; of a pulmonary emphysema (see MEDICINE); in Manhattan...
RICHARD F. MORGAN...
Landru. Another Chabrol film, with a script by Francoise Sagan, this one is a kind of comedy of murders, based on the story of the French Bluebeard who killed off ten women during World War 1. Two of the victims: Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan...
Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
This is only one of the tests facing the new economy. Some of the more cautious worry that the stock market is becoming overpriced again, after one of the sharpest rises in its history; they believe, as J. P. Morgan put it, that the market "is destined to fluctuate." Others wonder how much the demand for steel will decline should the possibility of a strike evaporate, how long customers will continue to spend so freely, and how well the 1964 cars will go over. And bankers fret about how long the dollar can maintain its integrity in world markets with...