Word: nashe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sotheby's feels it is being arraigned for the crime of high success. David Nash, head of its Fine Arts division, told the Washington Post that critics, far from being elitist, have "a hostile proletarian attitude toward our business." (Let 'em eat Braque.) But auction-house pretensions to be self- regulating have collided with the skepticism of Angelo Aponte, New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...
Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Alessandra Stanley, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
...issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season. F.D.R.'s Thanksgiving formula was later codified into federal law, but not before Ogden Nash composed the following couplet...
Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Alessandra Stanley, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Alessandra Stanley, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...