Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World of Frick & Mellon. In the 20th Century as in the 19th, Pittsburgh was ruled by money and steel, and by people bearing the names of Frick, Carnegie, Mellon. These were men who had made the city great-and who had left behind the ugly, lordly buildings in the business section, their monuments to Coal, Coke, Iron, Steel, Aluminum, who had left behind their Duquesne Club squatting beside Gimbel's department store, their mansions of monstrous Victorian architecture...
...midst of the Golden Triangle the Smithfield Evangelical Church raised a finger to God-a spire constructed of wrought iron. But Frick, Carnegie and the Mellons had left a city which was closer to man-a city in which was concentrated all the evils and ailments and shocks and problems of the nation's industrial...
...Moneymakers. Henry Clay Frick came to T. Mellon & Sons for a loan one day. Thomas' son Andrew eyed him up & down. That day began an association which was to last for 42 years. Nothing and no one was too big for H. C. Frick. He armed his agents with coke forks, kitchen knives and flintlocks and subdued his rebellious labor. He turned on the great Andrew Carnegie himself and fought a battle for power which ended in the mergers that became U.S. Steel Corp...
Newsmen cooled their heels for two hours while Chandler mulled things over with National League President Ford Frick, New York Giants officials, members of Chandler's staff and a stiff upper Lip. Finally, he called them into his office and issued a terse communiqu...
...could find none of his paintings. It was not until 50 years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...