Word: arte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Prince Potenziani's governship of Rome is a mayoralty with added dictatorial powers. He is of ancient aristocratic family but likes to drive a motor car with as much reckless speed as does Dictator Benito Mussolini himself, and is skilled in the gentlemanly art of swordplay. He was accompanied by his athletic, vivacious daughter, Princess Miriam. Orating at Manhattan, he said: ". . . The Man of Destiny, Benito Mussolini . . . guided by his inexhaustible love of his fatherland . . . leads Italy with unshaken faith and a firm hand toward its new future, founded on principles of ... peace, order...
...first category of bankers, he was also in the first category of art patrons, having been a director of both the Metropolitan Opera Company and of the New York Philharmonic Society, now merged with the Symphony Society of New York (TIME, April 2). Otto H. Kahn and Clarence Hungerford Mackay are likewise directors of both musical organizations...
...Manhattan last week, a festive party was held in an art gallery. An aged gentleman, hero of the occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City...
...intervening (1903-11) U. S. Steel president, heads no concern; directs several of the most potent of their kind-American Banknote, Baldwin Locomotive, Bethlehem Steel, International Nickel, Mack Trucks, Montana Power. . . . When in the U. S. he lives on Fifth Avenue, close to Manhattan's Metropolitan Art Museum...
Unusual activity in many lines characterized the first year of existence of the new Fogg Art Museum, according to the recent report of the year 1926-27 to President Lowell by E. W. Forbes '95, director of the Museum...