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Predecessor and unconscious mentor of most of the 19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...
Almost a duplicate of the already opened Frick Museum in purpose, the Bache Museum too will preserve the collection of a very rich man in the rooms and in the setting that he chose for it. There are certain minor differences. It took the forceful daughter of Henry Clay Frick. her trustees and architects, four years to remodel her father's home as a public museum. For many years Banker Bache kept his great collection in a large Manhattan apartment, bought his present house in 1925 with the idea of turning it into a museum...
Chester Dale Collection. Unlike the Frick and Bache collections, the great collection of French moderns assembled by knowing, tawny-haired Mrs. Chester Dale is not yet a public museum, but visitors are welcome within reason...
...industrial war. Branded as "pure hokum," along with the idea that the House of Morgan had forced the settlement, were reports that the burly labor leader and the patrician steelmaster had been brought together by 1) Manhattan's First National Bank, 2) President Thomas Moses of H. C. Frick Coke Co. (a U. S. Steel subsidiary...
...first day of the matches, the 100 yard dash will take place with Charlie Hutter and Peter Frick, who tied Johnny Weismuller's record, favored to lead the field. Another close battle is anticipated in the 220 yard breast stroke with Win Jameson facing the Intercollegiate record holder, Michigan's Captain Kasley...