Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace. In Manhattan, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., concluded a speech on the Battle of Yorktown: "Thank God, all feeling of bitterness is forever past between us." In Pittsburgh, before the Carnegie Institute, Attorney General Sargent began : "The desire for peace must grow from within." Charles E. Hughes, about to return to Bermuda, was clamorously hailed by the New York Chamber of Commerce, "the greatest statesman in the world." Speaking of the U. S. abroad he said: "It would be unfortunate, indeed, if American capital stood aloof...
...disassociate" themselves from subsidiary lines of business. Had they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...
Attorney General Sargent has taken steps to have determined by the Supreme Court of the U. S. the mooted question of whether a criminal case can be thrown out of court because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official sten ographer to report the indictment proceedings. This point will be raised as the result of a writ of error in the case of George A. Storrs and others, charged with using the mails to defraud, Which was dismissed in the District Court of Utah because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official...
...said, last week, that Sargent was the only contemporary painter who could make an important honor appear silly by receiving it; that there is a picture of his in every museum in the world that has been able to secure one; that the British National Gallery, hitherto reserved for those artists whose respectability has been fortified by death, gave a room to his paintings of the Wertheimer family...
Died. John Singer Sargent, 69, famed artist; in London, of apoplexy...