Word: morley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce Morley...
...menus on National, which are rendered in French (even for breakfast), though "no Frenchman would give house-room" to the meal that follows. The canned fruit, the cannonball rolls, the senile salads. Some of the British inspectors' bitterest barbs are aimed at British Airways; pace Robert Morley, its "farcically pretentious Elizabethan menu heralded one of the worst air meals ever eaten." A British Airways official, who might have been speaking for most of the chastised carriers, retorted huffily: "I am afraid Mr. Ronay is totally out of touch with the views and tastes of today's airline passengers...
...unanimously to reject the $40 offer. McGraw apparently won unanimity by harping on his two main arguments: 1) that an Amexco takeover would undermine the editorial independence of McGraw-Hill publications, especially Business Week and the Standard & Poor's bond-rating service, and 2) that Amexco President Roger Morley had committed a "serious breach of trust" by serving as a McGraw-Hill director while Amexco was preparing its bid-a charge that McGraw repeated in a letter to share holders announcing the rejection...
...Attackers do not expect to be loved, but they rarely sue for libel. The 22-page complaint was aimed at silencing Harold McGraw, the publishing company's chief, who earlier in the week took out ads harshly attacking American Express, its chairman, James Robinson, and its president, Roger Morley...
...sensitivity to professional responsibility" essential to McGraw-Hill's operations. He claimed that Robinson had agreed last summer not to bid for McGraw-Hill after his informal overtures had been turned down, and that he was now guilty of "an unprecedented breach of trust." McGraw thundered that Morley, by continuing to sit on the McGraw-Hill board until the bid was made, "clearly violated his fiduciary duties to McGraw-Hill and the stockholders ... by misappropriating confidential information and conspiring with American Express" to acquire McGraw-Hill on the cheap. McGraw wound up with a threat to sue Morley, Amexco...