Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...statement was only partially true. Lean, sober-faced Georgia O'Keeffe is far better known to the general public than most of the other artists under the protective wing of her dealer husband, but to Miss O'Keeffe's embarrassment, every time a showing of her paintings is held, it attracts half the amateur theosophists, swamis, faith healers and founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist...
...could paint the way she wanted to paint. With charcoal she covered sheets and sheets with neat abstract drawings, sent them to a friend in Manhattan with specific instructions not to show them to anyone else. Anita Pollitzer, the friend, could hardly wait to rush the drawings to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz who promptly gave them an exhibition. Enraged, Georgia O'Keeffe went rushing north to protest: Stieglitz argued back. Nine years later they were married...
...catalog. These were not prepared by the Buffalo Museum's staff but by leading authorities in the U. S. on each particular field. Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope wrote on Persian bronzes, the Metropolitan's Gisela M. A. Richter covered those of Greece and Rome, Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois wrote on modern bronzes...
...Haven not only did John Pelley become one of the most popular figures in U. S. railroading, but he blossomed out as an industrial statesman as well. It was in the summer of 1932 that a New Dealer rang his telephone in New Haven, told him that Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was going to define his position on the railroads a few days hence in Salt Lake City. Mr. Pelley had recently issued a statement about government regulation with which Mr. Roosevelt had found himself in complete accord. Might Mr. Roosevelt quote it in part? John Pelley, a lifelong Republican, amiably...