Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige does not depend on tradition alone; it rests on what he has done to rescue the House of Morgan from decline and restore it once more to the first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became...
...first four, based on deposits: Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, First National City Bank of New York, Chemical Bank New York Trust...
...principal dealers in government securities. The bank annually sends out more than 9,200,000 dividend checks worth $1 billion for corporations, takes care of investing $6.5 billion in trust funds. Morgan Guaranty runs pension funds for such big corporations as Johns-Manville, Kennecott Copper, Philip Morris, the New York Times. It runs them well. Alexander's current appraisal of the stock market is one of caution; the bank is now putting only one-third of new money into stocks, compared with its normal...
Keeping Up with the Times. In this volume, Faulkner carries the story well beyond World War II, and it is precisely the new material that seems least convincing. Characters get in and out of wars in a way that seems merely to pass time. Linda marries a New York sculptor who is also a Jew and a Communist, but by the time he gets himself killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes...
...writes Mailer admiringly, are "philosophical psychopaths," stronger, less intellectual and more vigorous sexually than Beatniks. The opposite of Hip, of course, is Square. Mailer it-provides a small glossary of opposites: crooks and sin are Hip, while cops and salvation are Square; likewise T-formation football and the New York Herald Tribune are Hip, but the single-wing formation and the New York Times are Square. Asking why, apparently, is also Square...