Word: morgans
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...written in disappearing ink. Nowhere could the committee establish that a U.S. President had authorized an international hit. The CIA agents involved almost always acted in the belief that they were sanctioned by higher authority−even "the highest authority"−but as North Carolina Democratic Senator Robert Morgan noted: "We have been able to establish neither responsibility nor innocence...
Died. Arthur Ernest Morgan, 97, educational innovator, author and chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1933 until 1938, when F.D.R. dismissed him following a policy dispute; in Xenia, Ohio. A surveyor's son, Morgan studied civil engineering in the early 1900s and became one of the nation's top specialists in flood control. In 1913, after a flood hit Dayton, Morgan went there to build the first major diversion reservoir in the U.S. During the next few years, he noticed that many of the college-trained engineers working for him lacked practical skill; to remedy the situation...
Otis resisted fiercely. Chairman Ralph Weller labeled United's initial $42 offer "totally inadequate" (the stock was then selling for $37.63) and asked Morgan Stanley & Co., an investment banking house, to find a "friendly" partner. Two weeks later, Otis won a preliminary injunction from the New York federal district court blocking United's offer on the ground that the company did not spell out eventual merger plans. Undaunted, United resubmitted its offer, changing it to a bid to buy "any and all" Otis shares. Early last week Otis announced that it had received a last-minute feeler...
...Italian serves my coffee. A photo of Chesty Morgan is pasted on the wall behind him. He asks if I would like some music--I wouldn't mind. The old man walks out from behind the counter and spreads change for the juke box on top of a gorged flip-top trash barrel. There is a die and a hinge in the collection of coins. I think that he's a scavenger, like the pick-pocket; even his shoes, with the heels sagging off his ankles like pouting lips, look as though they were plucked out of an alley...
...PAUL MORGAN 523 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...