Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Havemeyer died. To the Metropolitan Museum (which now lacks the space properly to exhibit the works) were bequeathed all objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...
Daniel Guggenheim is getting old-72. His name is still synonymous with gold, silver, copper and nitrate mining from Alaska to Chile. That synonymity developed a half century ago when the late Meyer Guggenheim started a smelter in Colorado for his seven sons. In the last three and a half years, however, Daniel Guggenheim has made his name consonant with aeronautical promotion. First he gave $500,000 to New York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion...
Daniel Guggenheim is a grandson of Simon Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, and son of Meyer Guggenheim. He is the second of seven brothers: Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Simon, Benjamin, William. Many years ago their father called them together, told them the parable of seven sticks which separately could be broken, but together were unbreakable. He started them in the mining business with a smelter in Colorado. They prospered, engaged the best brains in the mining business, gained control of vast copper mining properties which produced two-fifths of the world's copper supply. When they sold control of Chile...
...late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest in his play...
...cast of characters follows: Angel H. G. Meyer '30 Angel W. H. Melish '31 First Nun Julia Bygrave Second Nun Rachael Allen First Woman Margaret Cook Second Woman Elizabeth Winter Third Woman Adelaid Selbourne Joseph J. M. Sargent '31 Mary Patricia Stevenson Elizabeth Lily Jones First Shepherd M. P. Smith '32 Second Shepherd M. deJ. Manduley '31 Third Shepherd J. F. Eddy '31 Melchior G. W. Harrington '30 Balthazar L. F. Robinson '30 Caspar...