Word: morgans
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...episode considerably more than a paranoid fantasy. In 1933 emissaries purporting to represent an organization called the American Liberty League approached a retired Marine general named Smedley Darlington Butler. The League was devoted to laissez-faire capitalism and backed by such people as the Du Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt into accepting "the popular will." The cabal even had a man touring Europe to study...
Died. Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 83, an American pioneer in nonobjective art and co-founder (with Morgan Russell) in 1913 of the "synchromistic" school of painting; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. While studying art in Paris, Wright read about 19th century discoveries in optics and color and decided to eliminate from his paintings everything but chromatic rhythm and form. Comparing color to sound, Wright often selected visual harmonies by striking chords and intervals on a piano. His work influenced such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur B. Davies and Joseph Stella...
from the stage-just like anyone in her groupie audience.) At her death she was "engaged" to Seth Morgan, a college student half a dozen years her junior, and a member of a socially prominent New York family. She claimed no man could ever give her the rush she felt from a wall of applause. A few weeks before her death she told Kristofferson she was working on a new tune. "I'm gonna call it," she confided, "I Just Made Love to 25,000 People But I'm Goin' Home Alone...
...Morgan Guaranty Trust Company...
...Morgan Guaranty Trust Company...