Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, the great St. Thomas Aquinas held that "the celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world." Among modern believers, the worst advertisement is Adolf Hitler, who had five astrologers charting a course for him. Perhaps the most surprising was J. P. Morgan: he regularly consulted Astrologer Evangeline Adams, who, when haled into court, did so accurate a horoscope of the judge's son that the judge dismissed the case...
...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...
Searching abroad to fill out his show, Milliken borrowed art from the Louvre, India, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether his catch amounted to 63 paintings, four pieces of sculpture, some goldsmith and enamel work, and a display of manuscripts from the Morgan Library. One of his regrets is that he failed to get a Velasquez, but he took his−chances. "In the museum where they had a Velasquez that I would have liked to borrow, they happened to have an El Greco which I felt was finer...
...Gates Jr., Ike's last and ablest Defense Secretary, to be their candidate for Governor or U.S. Senator this year. After agonizing over the decision, Tom Gates refused. Only a few months earlier, he had accepted a job as chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., whose assets of $5.2 billion make it the fifth largest U.S. bank, and he did not want to leave that job. Last week the full reason for Gates's decision became clear. Morgan Guaranty promoted Gates, 56, to the presidency, replacing Dale E. Sharp...
Challenge for Competitors. Private U.S. money is now helping Siemens to push the biggest expansion program in its history. In the first major private loan by U.S. financiers to a German firm since the war. a group of twelve lending institutions headed by Morgan Stanley and Arnhold & Bleichroeder have lent Siemens $25 million as part of its two-year, $250 million expansion (much of which will be paid for out of profits). With expanded plant, Siemens intends to give stiffer competition in world markets to its three bigger U.S. competitors−General Electric. Western Electric and Westinghouse...