Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad at 17 to study painting-at Düsseldorf because his cautious parents considered Paris no place for a young man from Detroit. At 29 he won the grand medal of honor in the Paris Salon, an honor only two other U. S. artists have won (John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
...Boardman, J. L. Clark, W. L. Clark, Richard Cobb, G. S. Franklin, R. W. Gilder, G. G. Glidden, G. V. Hollins, H. S. Howes, R. H. Knapp, J. J. Knox, C. P. Lyman, L. B. Orr, R. M. Poet, J. H. Plumb, H. H. Poor, Gordon Robinson, E. R. Sargent, L. S. Shaw, J. R. Short, and L. N. Stevens...
...known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them. A week later he gave an exhibition of his own paintings and invited the enemy...
...Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble Oil), Frederick Lockwood Lipman (Wells Fargo), Paul Shoup (Southern Pacific...
...District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly declared that President Hoover had turned him down because he was a Wet Catholic. Between Colonel Donovan...