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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh the name of Laughlin has a potency approaching that of Carnegie, Frick, Mellon. Pittsburgh's steel-minded burghers do homage to the firm name: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week, on recommendation of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed. President Hoover appointed bald, courtly Irwin Boyle Laughlin, long-time diplomat, as Ambassador to Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steel-Sired Diplomat | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Duveen | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Among them will be a painting by George Bellows loaned through the courtesy of Mrs. Helen Frick, and a picture by Georgia O'Keefe from the collection of Professor P. J. Sachs '00, of the Department of Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT ART ASSOCIATION OPENS EXHIBIT FEBRUARY 15 | 1/17/1929 | See Source »

...Manduley '32, G. W. Harrington '30. H. G. Meyer '30, M. P. Smith '32, P. S. Davis '30, N. P. Lowenstein 1G.B., F. A. Pickard '29, Mary Crandon, Gretchen Blair, Helen Shaw, Lily Jones, Sally Sherburne, H. C. Friend 31, C. L. Fox ocC., Harold Adamson '32, J. W. Frick '31, J. M. Sargent '31, L. C. Winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIESTA" TO OPEN ON DECEMBER 12 | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...actually has $14,000,000 of paid in capital and surplus, more money than any bank ever started with.* And it has Mr. Howell as its senior executive. Thirty years ago he was one of Carnegie's bright young men-with Charles Michael Schwab, Henry Clay Frick and others who became millionaires. Mr. Howell was head of the Carnegie Steel Co.'s credit department. Later he became a vice president of the National Bank of Commerce in Manhattan, and extended his personal financial work. Then came directorships with the Bankers' Trust Co., the Equitable Life Assurance Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Commercial National | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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