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...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...
...Vive l' Amérique!", "Vive Monsieur le Président!" echoed in the cobbled streets as Mr. Hoover, accompanied S. Pinkney Tuck, today U. S. Embassy Counselor at Brussels and in Paris often host to the Duchess of Windsor when she was Mrs. Simpson, drove into Lille. Day before, Mr. Hoover had informed correspondents that he was off on a swing through Europe. Asked if he intended to gather political information firsthand, he replied, smiling: "I intend to look and listen...
...methods, and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department of Justice, although...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...
From among the third year men the following were elected: George Ezra Dave. Pomona '24, of Pasadena, Cal.; Abraham Howard Feller, Columbia '25, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; James Pinkney Hart, University of Texas '25, of Austin, Texas; Joseph Henry Head, Yale '25, of Hillsboro, Ohio; John Edwards Lock-wood, Williams '25, of New York, and Kingsley Arter Taft, Amherst '25, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio...