Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ambition brought Mr. Browne up against "the White Rats." In 1896, before whimsey became a social crime, the first U. S. actors' union worthy of the name was organized as the White Rats of America.† By eventful metamorphosis, including a Broadway strike of actors in 1919 for...
In the late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of...
The deal was ancient financial history in 1936 when stockholders sued, claiming that the profit rightfully belonged to the company, not the directors in the syndicate. The members of the syndicate replied that the corporation neither wanted the stock nor was in a position to buy it and that the...
EDNA MORRIS DEVIN
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel...