Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Levy called on Paul Hahn, vice president of American Tobacco Co. Louis Levy suggested to Paul Hahn that $250,000 be borrowed from Albert Lasker, then president of Lord & Thomas, advertising agency. Lord & Thomas handled the tobacco company's advertising, amounting at the time to some $19,000,000 annually (commission...
Judge Knox cleared American Tobacco's Paul Hahn of anything worse than "poor judgment," declared that innocent Lord & Thomas' Albert Lasker had been "shamefully treated." He said that the relations existing between Levy and Judge Manton were such that Judge Manton should have retired from the case of his own volition. "When he was not moved to do so, there was a duty which imposed itself upon Levy. Trained lawyer that he is, and possessing an experience gained in more than 30 years of practice, he should have appreciated instantly that his dealings with Manton had been such...
Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
Thomas Eakins was a realistic painter, Albert Pinkham Ryder a romantic one. But they had a good deal of history in common. Both were born about the time the U. S. fought Mexico, died just before it entered World War I. Neither was popular in his lifetime, though each had tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view...
...years, Albert Ryder completed less than 200 pictures. A recluse who painted from imagination, he lived in a messy Manhattan studio. Working on several pictures at a time, he gave them lustre, depth and mystery through alternate layers of paint and glaze. After laboring 18 years on Macbeth and the Witches, one of the romantically sombre canvases in his present Manhattan show at Knoedler's, he remarked: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Critics agree that Ryder's skies are the most interesting in U. S. painting...