Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pledged money to cover the quick cash loan signed by General Clay. Among them: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), N.Y.C., $100,000; Texaco Inc., N.Y.C., $100,000; Ford Motor Co. Fund, Dearborn, Mich., a nonprofit corporation supported by Ford Motor Co., $100,000; Socony Mobil Oil Co., N.Y.C., $25,000; Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., N.Y.C., $10,000; Dallas Clearing House Association, $10,000; and Shell Oil Co., N.Y.C., an undisclosed amount. General Motors Corp. was reported to have given $150,000 but declined to confirm the contribution...
Donovan, retired General Lucius Clay, and members of Bobby's Government and private task force telephoned bankers across the nation. This is not the sort of business in which most banks are interested. But Bobby's people were persuasive: Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and the Bank of America agreed to assume the risk by posting a $26.5 million bond each with the Canadian bank. As a final guarantee, Chicago's Continental Casualty Co. reinsured the two U.S. banks...
...Foreign Service. (Though 76% of the Bay's stock is still British-owned, eight of its 15 directors and most of its top executives are Canadian.) Two years ago, Murray moved the Bay into Eastern Canada's large cities by merging with the ten-store Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur...
Three people are in the room, two women and a man. The man (Morgan Sterne) is a coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers...
Looking back on his own pre-prison life not so much in anger as in new-found wisdom, Crump tells the story of Guy Morgan. Like Crump, Morgan hates his father, a hellfire-and-brimstone revival preacher with a weakness for girls, who finally abandons the family for the favors of a particular girl named Zola. Morgan, like Crump, is brutally and unjustifiably beaten by a Negro-hating Chicago cop. But with plenty of precedent and plenty of excuse for blaming all Morgan's troubles on society, Crump instead makes his story illustrate a more mature individual judgment...