Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead the world in genius for invention, efficiency and utility. There is no reason why we cannot eventually do so in the genius for art and literature." With such hearty optimism, a steel baron named Joseph Green Butler Jr. founded an art institute in Youngstown, Ohio 39 years ago. To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip...
...after he graduated from Dartmouth, Joe Butler III followed his steel-baron grandfather and his father Henry A. Butler into management work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Later he worked for a while in the family brokerage firm. But when his father died, Joe took on museum directing as well as brokering. It was too much. Forced to decide between them, he chose to be director of the Butler Institute of American...
Caught in the eavesdropping act: Jack Anderson, a legman for Newspeeper Columnist Drew Pearson, and Baron (name, not title) Ignatius Shacklette, chief investigator for the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and a veteran congressional shamus. Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms...
Louis Philippe, "the Citizen King," sent his agent, Baron Taylor, to investigate the possibilities in Spain with 1,327,000 francs ($252,130), got back a staggering 412 Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have...
...move from the skirmishing of active politics: "It's like sipping champagne that has been on the table for five or six days," ungallantly proposed a mode of address for the first soon-to-be-appointed female members of Lords: "I should think they would be called Baron Ladies, and with considerable justice, I am sure...