Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Harvey O'Connor (Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...
Steelman Myron Taylor was again at the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
...route to Europe on a Guggenheim fellowship, Kentucky's Author Jesse Stuart stopped off in New York, discussed the South: "When you eat what you raise and raise what you eat, you don't have to worry about money. We're the lucky ones. I get sorry for the city people. I come up here, and I see them sitting on the stoops, and no wonder they go wild when they lose a job. Mountain people are mountain people and they're different...
...Others: Daniel Guggenheim Foundation (for research in aeronautics), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (the famed fellowships), Murry & Leonie Guggenheim Foundation (for dental clinics...