Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considered one of the finest examples of African art, the fourteenth century bronze portrait of a princess of Benin, fabulous and now virtually extinct small nation of the West African slave coast, was presented to the Fogg Museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York City...
Held to be one of the most successful character portrayals in early African art, the princess portrait breaks away from the traditional stylization of features, revealing great artistic skill and knowledge of anatomy. A cap of coral beads, with long pendants on either side, tops the head. The eyes are delicately inlaid with iron...
...Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
Meantime the dollar was soaring in foreign exchange, the franc had another bad spell, and a near-panic occurred in South African gold shares on the Johannesburg Exchange. Not until after President Roosevelt emphatically denied the rumor a second time did the world's money-changers shake their jitters. The President said he knew of no plan to tinker with the price of gold, that all he knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded...
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