Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Emperor of India (Entering accompanied by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, taking his stance in front of the gilded Throne, glancing deliberately about while the assemblage bowed, dipping for his spectacles and putting them on, receiving his manuscript speech from Lord Stamfordham, facing his special gold & silver microphone, holding up his speech with hands that trembled slightly...
...eleventh annual exhibition of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. It was a good show, far better than that of many academies better known and more widely advertised. Mr. Tiffany himself, looking a little like the Old Man of the Sea, hobbled round the halls and presented the Foundation's gold medal to a dapper young Italian with a very large cravat, Umberto Romano...
Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of Jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany, was born in New York Feb. 18, 1848, the year before the Gold Rush. Always interested in art, he studied painting under the elder George Inness, a talented exponent of what was known as the Hudson River School. Later he went abroad, studied in Paris, traveled and sketched extensively in Europe, Africa, the Levant. Here commenced his interest in decorative arts, particularly glassware, which led to his development of that heavy iridescent substance known as Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National...
Honored. Daniel Cowan Jackling. president of Utah Copper Co., with the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for achievement in mining;? by the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. He found methods for making low-grade copper ore profitable...
Retiring. Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, 61, commodore of the Cunard Fleet, captain of the Berengaria. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the Carpathia, of which he was then captain, received the SOS, rescued 706 survivors. For this he received a gold medal from Congress, a letter of thanks from President Taft...