Word: mcneills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed modern U. S. painters were both expatriates.* James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was born in Lowell, Mass. He studied unsuccessfully at West Point. A job in Washington, in the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, got him interested in etching. He went to Paris to study art, never returned to the U. S. Before he died he was at the top of his profession...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public, because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...
Next morning Mr. Cosgrave, whose position as "President" is strikingly similar to that of a "Prime Minister," reported himself to his superior, the representative of King George V, jovial Governor- General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, who had rushed back from the Continent to Dublin to receive him. With the Dail's approval all members of the Irish Cabinet which fell fortnight ago were reinstated in their old ministries under President Cosgrave...
...projects were defeated in Congress a thousand times. Last week in Dublin, however, an adverse majority of only two votes in the Dail Eireanu forced "President Liam T. MacCosgair (William T. Cosgrave) to hand his resignation to the Governor General of the Irish Free State, His Excellency James McNeill, appointed by King George...
When Louisine Waldron Elder of Philadelphia was a small speculative girl in pigtails she carefully hoarded her pennies and bought a picture from elegant, irascible James A. McNeill Whistler. So impressed was Whistler with little Louisine's good judgment that he gratefully sent her copies of several of his etchings. That was the beginning of the collection exhibited last week. Years later Louisine met and married another collector, the late Henry Osborne Havemeyer, potent sugarman, President of American Sugar Refining Co. It was no longer necessary to save pennies. Together they wandered about the world, buying magnificently...