Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were some of the $992,750 emergency grants cited last week in the annual report of Dr. Frederick Paul Keppel, president of Carnegie Corp., to show how Depression has forced Andrew Carnegie's $135,000,000 philanthropy out of its true channel of education. Hard times have not only cut the corporation's funds but have also materially reduced the inflow of new ideas on how and where to spend money. Explained President Keppel: "Those from whom ideas in ordinary times might be expected have been overworked and strained and have had neither the time...
Accompanying an appreciative editorial by Mr. Ellery Sedgewick, editor of this distinguished journal, there appears in the June Number an article entitled "President Lowell and his Influence." Its author is a Harvard man, F. P. Keppel but not one of that large portion of graduates who have at least a little finger in a little portion of the administrational pie. He writes calmly and with an open mind, covering firstly President Lowell himself, then his theories, his accomplishments, and his mistakes. It is evident that the calm method, combined with that strong admiration which most people feel in the presence...
...room for it back of his Manhattan paint store, but the Macbeth Gallery was indisputably the first to sell nothing but U. S. art. William Macbeth, a quiet little Irishman with a soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier the magnificos of the Reconstruction Era used to pay $10,000 to $25,000 apiece for paintings of the Hudson River School. Founder Macbeth...
Under the bleak late-Victorian beamed roof of Westminster Church House last week sat the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
Married. Reinhold Niebuhr, 39, leader of U. S. religious youth, editor of World Tomorrow, professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton; in Winchester, England...