Category Archives: Mentions

Courtesy of Google Books: From footnote on page 100: When a nonmanagerial stockholder does attend the stockholders’ meeting and dares to speak up, he may be written up in the next day’s newspaper as a crackpot. Royal Munger, financial editor … Continue reading →

The folowing excerpt was taken from the book A Founders Touch, The Life of Paul Gavin of Motorola, 1965, a biography of Motorola’s founder, and reprinted at http://mfwright.com/mikeht220/hthistory.html: But the real impetus for the beginning of Motorola’s great war contributions came in early … Continue reading →

Page Three, top of Column Two: Royal F. Munger, of Chicago Daily News, says in the Union Signal, “Drinking tears down instead of building up, makes bums and crooks out of youngsters who, otherwise, would be clean, honest and hard-working.”

From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755233,00.html: Marshall Field news is never neglected by Chicago’s daily papers but last week they outdid themselves with stories about the “farmer boy who took literally the world’s greatest epic entitled ‘America, the Land of Opportunity.’” Jeered Financial Columnist … Continue reading →

From http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/telegraph-herald-dubuque-iowa/mi_8023/is_20070821/requesters-public-documents-defensive/ai_n44825544/: — While researching another project a while back, I came across an October 1936 column by Royal F. Munger, of the Chicago Daily News. “While everybody expects the truth of a newspaper, nobody ever tells it that,” Munger … Continue reading →

75 Years Ago First Lieutenant Royal F. Munger, Chicago ’19, was commended in the British General Orders for “bravery under fire in No Man’s Land.”

Page 306 (courtey of Google Books): In 1929 and 1930 Royal F. Munger, the chief financial writer for the Chicago Daily News, was the chief yea-sayer among the financial reporters, singing Insull’s praises to the point of idolatry. In 1931 … Continue reading →

Page 246 of 10,000 Famous Freemasons from K to Z, Volume 3, courtesy of Google Books: Royal F. Munger (1894-1944) Newspaperman, author. b. July 25, 1894 in Chicago, Ill. Received doctorate from U. of Chicago in 1937. Was with the … Continue reading →

Courtesy of Google Books: “During the building boom the owner gradually faded into the background until he was frequently nothing more than a stooge for the bond house. And the money raised by the sale of the bond issue was … Continue reading →

Both Royal Freeman Munger, and his father, Edwin Allston Munger, are listed. Royal is associated with his work, Finance Since the World War, and his father with his book, As Told by the Survivors. Information found at http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoliteraryc00wild/chicagoliteraryc00wild_djvu.txt.