Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...
...owned by A. W. Olsen and Y. F. Hung, won the Yangtszepoo Stakes. Col. R. W. Dockrill's Staff Captain took the Luna Park Opening Cup. Misses Margot and Tita Stephen's Merry Sinner took the Luna Park Hurdle Cup. But the dogs of Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon won no races until the second day's Hongkew Hurdles...
Arrived in the U. S. by air from Canada Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 39-year-old Under Secretary of State for Air. He had been inspired to visit the U. S., he said, by his conversations in England with the then Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had glowingly described to him the progress of aviation. He found, he added, that Captain Lindbergh had understated the wonders of U. S. aviation...
...Philip Sassoon, a handsome, immaculate Jew, has had an astounding career for a man of his age. Scion of two immensely wealthy families? the Sassoons and the Rothschilds?he is one of the richest men in England. His enemies ascribe much of his rapid advancement to his money, although all who know him have called him able...
...should its policy of excluding women as commercial pilots be continued. Mme. Boland claimed that dozens of French women, "in these hard times," are anxious to brace their family budgets with the stiff pay of air pilots. Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ? Soon Sir Philip Sassoon, British Under-Secretary of State for Air, and Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft in all countries which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed to regard women as ministering angels, even though...