Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kehnebunkport, Me., Playhouse: Henry Morgan in Reclining Figure...
...Negative psychology seems to characterize the general mood," reported New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in its latest monthly survey of business conditions, "and a peaking-out of business before the year's end is now being discussed as a distinct possibility'' ("peaking out" is a positive-psychology way of saying "recession...
From the days of Commodore Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan through such recent victims as U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, many big businessmen have shown at crucial moments a surprising inability to influence-or even to gauge-the public mind. Last week another businessman, Clarence Randall, 71, retired chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., offered his own explanation. Wrote Randall in the New York Times Magazine: "Responsibility breeds isolation . . . After an executive reaches the very top, he is seldom seen in public and seldom heard. He becomes a myth." The result is "that when the great storm...
...wonder how many of these businessmen, still clutching bygone myths to their restless bosoms, could have created and built the industrial empires they now manage. Imagine a Vanderbilt or a Morgan whining and sniveling in public about how hard it is to succeed when you have lost confidence in your President. Pirates and buccaneers they may have been, but they had guts and imagination, which are just memories to the crybabies who occupy today's executive suites. Maybe Caroline Kennedy will head up a national drive to get American kids to send their discarded security blankets to our quivering...
Behind the mace-bearer in the traditional procession to the Memorial Church steps, Morgan escorted Marshall before a group of eleven other distinguished honorary degree recipitents. Among them that day were T.S. Ellot, James Wadsworth, I.A. Richards, J. Robert Oppenheimer, George Henry Chase (former dean of Harvard), W. Hodding Carter, Jr. (editor of the Delta, Miss. Democratic-Times), Frank L. Boyden (headmaster of Deerfield Academy), and Gen Omar N. Bradley, the other afternoon speaker...