Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Proprietor John Walter III (grandson of the founder) ; sturdy, gregarious Editor John Thadeus Delane; shy, lettered Manager (managing editor) Mowbray Morris. During those years The Times made itself the paper of every middle-class Englishman's breakfast table by vociferously championing the bourgeoisie that was climbing to power...
U. S. historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash.
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down...
This week, for the first time, appeared Gouverneur Morris' complete diaries (edited by his great-granddaughter) covering the years in France (1789-1793) which blackened his name for a century and a half. Therein Morris does more to clear his later reputation than others have managed to do for...
Although the Associated Royal Warrant Holders can crack down by law on British usurpers, the U. S. is a permanent headache. At present the association is piqued at Philip Morris Co. for sporting a coat of arms on its Marlboro cigaret package, thus implying a royal warrant.