Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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World War II stopped projected borrowings from abroad. But Dr. Swarzenski effectively panhandled U. S. museums, dealers and collectors, even persuaded such a confirmed non-lender as J. P. Morgan to ship some treasures temporarily to Boston...
Down the hill from Lawrence's grave, where the head of Broad Street nudges Wall Street's pinched bosom, stands the sedate seven-story building of J. P. Morgan & Co., its marble walls still pitted from the famed bomb explosion of Sept. 16, 1920. There last week a tradition no less glamorous than wooden ships, more weighty in world history than the U. S. Navy, symbolically died and was buried. Dust with Lawrence was the personal liability of its partners for the debts of J. P. Morgan & Co.; on April 1 and thenceforth it will...
...individualistic and it was shamelessly corrupt when the first J. Pierpont Morgan came to Manhattan in 1857 from the London banking house of his father, Junius Spencer Morgan, onetime New England drygoods merchant. Through the "Western Blizzard" panic of that year and for two years more, young, brusque, tough-fibered Morgan listened & learned as a Wall Street junior clerk. By 1860 he was in business as New York agent for his father's George Peabody & Co., bought and sold foreign exchange through the Civil War. Also, he helped finance the sale to the Union Army of 5,000 carbines...
...Europe have been told already. Although carried almost to the ridiculous, the plot on the whole is well-handled, and allows for some spontaneous acting by a cast that does everything required of it. Sheldon Leouard as Officer Finkelstein is the only part with real guts. But Doris Dudley, Morgan Farley and Kurt Ketch supply enough clues and alibis to make their presence worth while. "Margin For Error" is not brilliant mystery nor complete satire; but working with both, Clare Boothe has provided another fair evening...
...copper, wheat, gasoline in New York, reputedly still looking for rubber and tin. Its head, stocky, forceful K. I. Lukashov, former president of Leningrad University, was also moving his busy staff to new and larger quarters at No. 210 Madison Ave. (diagonally opposite the home of J. P. Morgan...