Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week's sale was the familiar story of a collector's son who had inherited his father...
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...
Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to the Southwest. Author O. Henry, onetime convict, kindled his interest in parole work, in which he became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public...
...single Czech, Bohumil Vana, eliminated Viktor Barna, the great Hungarian paddler, in the semi-finals and Defending Champion Richard Bergmann of Austria in the final of the men's singles. In the men's doubles, the Hungarian team of Barna & Bellak were set back by Sol Schiff & Jimmy McClure of the U. S. An Austrian, Trudi Pritzi, won the women's singles. But Hungary regained the Swaythling...
...prosperous years before Depression the Carnegie Institute spent up to $60,000 on the Carnegie International. This year it spent about $35,000. The Institute's Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens was especially proud last week of the work done in Spain by the Institute's nervy emissary, Margaret Palmer, who got many of her contemporary paintings out of Madrid in an army truck provided by the Loyalist Government to take a load of Goyas to Valencia. All 407 paintings were in place by the last week in September, when the four judges, each armed with 15 Dennison...