Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they belong also to the Royal Hibernian Academy which, chartered in 1823, now has 24 members and a gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School; 20 lively sea and landscapes by George ("AE") Russell. Most indigenous works were a John Keating, called Holy Joe of the Mountains; and Power O'Malley's Irish Madonna...
...most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres, change to direct rocket action in the upper strata where propellers lose efficiency...
...constructed in a nefarious attempt to "wipe out the debts of the American-owned companies in the merger belonging to the Guggenheim interests...
...Manhattan the Brothers Guggenheim bided their time in silence, waited for Chile's seething Cosach pot to clarify. Who was honestly against Cosach, and who wanted money? Were agents of the German synthetic nitrogen trust perhaps at work in Santiago to ruin Cosach? Would smiling President Montero decide to come out for Cosach or against? When the President called courage the greatest need was he only weaseling and watching...
Rich & powerful in their far-flung mineral empire, the Brothers Guggenheim must have been glad to see last week behind them. Threatened in Chile by political agitation against their nitrate interests, in Manhattan, on their copper front, they faced the Belgian Congo's prolific Katanga. Nor were they alone in their fears of potent Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. Represented by Belgian Minister of State Emile Francqui and his cohorts, MM. Fernand Pisart & Camille Gutt, Katanga was forcing a hard bargain on a conference of the world's copper producers. Further curtailment of output to cut down...