Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist Whitehouse was overjoyed by his transfer year ago from Madrid to Guatemala (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). And last week, even as Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was off in Paris when the Brazilian revolution broke, Minister Whitehouse was not in Guatemala but vacationing in Florida. Chagrined by the presidential triple play at Guatemala City, he made hasty arrangements to fly back to duty...
...Friends said that Col. Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s export department. His first task will be to com plete a careful reduction in personnel, ordered last fortnight by Publisher Hearst...
Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America...
Another late arrival was lanky Owen D. Young who came about 11 p. m. in full dress, accompanied by Thomas William Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. Looking taller than usual in his full dress, Mr. Young paused to peer down at and converse with small, able Isidor Kresel, counsel for Bank of United States, also the busy new special investigator of New York's magistracy scandals. Shortly before 3 a. m. Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman came, was hurriedly ushered into the conference room by James Herbert Case, chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...heard of the meeting tremendous runs started on two trust companies. Secretary of the Treasury George Bruce Cortel, now president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, arranged a $35,000,000 credit. On Oct. 24 a great panic swept the Exchange. Demand loans rose to 125%. J. P. Morgan and associates released $25,000,000 to assuage the situation. But not until Nov. 6 did bank runs stop...