Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris...
Inventor of this term and first great exponent of its arts was the late Ivy Lee, the man who transformed John D. Rockefeller's reputation from that of the most hated man of his day to that of the "great benefactor." Ivy Lee's firm, now under the...
A native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started...
Prodding Louis XVI to accept a liberal constitution he argued that the French, having no such schooling in democracy as pre-Revolution Americans, would first swing to bloody revolutionary extremes, then fall into the hands of unscrupulous dictators. French rulers, said Morris, had so corrupted the French masses that they...
Chiefly interesting for their light on Morris' much-maligned business and political activities in France, the diaries are also notable for their account of the Terror, their Pepysian observations on political and social intrigue among the French upper crust. Even his enemies might enjoy Gouverneur Morris' formal candor...