Word: cassatts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fund Council are Philip W., Wrenn '94, Boston, finance; Christian H. Haberkorn, Jr., '12, Detroit, finance; Nevil Ford '13, New York, finance; Clay Judson '14, Chicago, law; Augustus Thorndike, Jr., 19, Boston, medicine; Francis Kernan, Jr., '24, New York, finance; John E. Toulmin '25, Boston, finance; and Alexander J. Cassatt '27, Philadelphia, finance...
...sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...became the unofficial secretary of the group, writing to dealers, arranging shows, patching quarrels. As anyone walking round last week's exhibition could see, Impressionist Pissarro liked his friends' painting almost too well. He painted sometimes like Millet, sometimes like Cezanne, sometimes like Sisley, sometimes like Mary Cassatt. When his friend Seurat invented a technique of painting with tiny blobs of pure color, Camille Pissarro tried that too. In that manner is possibly the most effective canvas in last week's exhibition-the Dieppe railway train disappearing into a green forest beyond a yellow corn field...
Under its seventh president, Alexander Johnston Cassatt, the Pennsylvania pushed eastward into New York. In 1900 the Pennsylvania secured control of the Long Island Railroad. In 1901 it got permission from New York City to build tunnels under the Hudson and a great terminal on Seventh Avenue. Mr. Cassatt died in 1906, was succeeded by James McCrea, under whom the tunnels were, completed (1910) and the Pennsylvania Station was formally dedicated. Mr. McCrea also completed the East River tunnels and began work on the Hell Gate Bridge, which links the Pennsylvania to the New York, New Haven & Hartford and makes...
...them over." All during Depression the firm gathered brokerage houses into its system, until Wall Street lost track of mergers, found it easier to count active partners of which there were 14 in 1928, 21 last month when E. A. Pierce absorbed the brokerage business of Philadelphia's Cassatt & Co. (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week the firm added three more partners and a handsome cotton brokerage business in the South and Midwest when it absorbed John F. Clark & Co. of New Orleans, Chicago and New York. That brought E. A. Pierce's total of branch offices...