Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
...Pachmann's long letter?"Through you I live forever!"?to the AutoPneumatic Action Co. (Welte-Mignon pianos); even Countess Starzynska's pearl-festooned pose in a Patou gown; even the fact that Rigaud perfume was used to scent the house at Consuelo Vanderbilt's wedding; even Mrs. Oliver Harriman's frosty elegance of face and phrase in the Willys-Knight reminders; even Prince Luis de Bourbon's witty crack in the new and aristocratic American Tobacco Co. series: "When do you feel like a prince? Smoking a Melachrino...
Last week 57,000 tons more went overboard through the sale by William Averell Harriman's United American Line of the Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Hamburg-American Line. This will give Germany a gross merchant tonnage of 3,130,713, practically where she was in 1917 and not far below her 1919 registry, which the Allies wrecked by confiscation...
...House (Messrs. Tilson and Garrett) and their wives, Mr. Alexander P. Moore (onetime Ambassador to Spain), James A. Drain (onetime Commander of the American Legion) and Mrs. Drain, two former ex-Secretaries to the President (C. Bascom Slemp and George B. Christian) and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce (the President's minister), Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut. Afterwards, seated on gilded chairs in the East Room, the guests were regaled with the notes of Alberto Salvi (harpist) and Miss Anna Case (soprano...
...abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with a mansard roof, a lookout and three men in a boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service to art in her tri-national exhibition (and it is general opinion that she has), her service has been to demonstrate once more, by direct comparison, the fatuity of American painting...