Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual holder in the Behn Brothers' mighty sys tem. Immediately in line for the I. T. & T. directorate were both Herr Kreuger and his U. S. colleague, Frederic Winthrop Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co. Banker Kreuger will likewise become a member of International's executive committee. An artist in the world of finance, Herr Kreuger is especially versed in the subtle business of dealing with governments. He negotiates loans for them and in return gets rich concessions. Canny trader of the North, he is an ideal ally for the French-&-Danish blooded Behns in flinging their communication...
Died. Mrs. Natalie Harris Hammond. 70, wife of Mining Engineer John Hays Hammond, mother of Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard and Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic...
Painted in 1787, twelve years after Artist David won the Prix de Rome, it relates, in the same mood of admiration, the story which was incorporated in perhaps the finest of Plato's dialogs-how Socrates, imprisoned after an unfair trial in which his sarcasm frightened but antagonized his judges, met death calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final...
Charles Dana Gibson, artist . . . D.F.A...
...stopping at the Ritz-Carlton across the street, stood out on the sidewalk to see their alma mater's potent trustee (see p. 36). At the Union League dinner the President was presented with a life-sized portrait of himself (see cut) painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote...