John D. Rockefeller The Rockefellers were a German immigrant family. At school, John D Rockefeller was considered a loner. He felt the class differences between rich and poor from an early age. While he was still at school he worked as a dishwasher and bell boy for his pocket money. He ...
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The gallery rooms in the Heckscher were modest — although Abby’s husband was John D. Rockefeller Jr., she had to find funding on her own (he was opposed to the museum, and to modern art). In his review, Pemberton noted the “inferiority complex” that had already set in at the new...
White also recalled the much-publicized 1925 wedding of Abby Rockefeller to David Milton, the throngs of women who took to smoking in public in the 1920s and the drinkers who took their activities behind closed doors; and one of the early magazine’s beloved contributors, Ralph Barton, who ...
The NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza have wowed visitors and performers alike for nearly 90 years. Today we look back at the remarkable foresight of the studios’ designers, who created spaces that would one day accommodate a new medium called television, which was still in its experimental ...
E.B. White, James Thurber(see below) and others in the March 18 issue commented on the national banking “holiday” declared byPresident Franklin D. Rooseveltin an effort to stabilize America’s banking system and rebuild public confidence. This led to the Glass-Steagall Act, signed three mon...
From studio 8H in NBC's Rockefeller Plaza, John was the only cast member to appear in the first-ever scene. Comedian George Carlin hosted the show in a 3-piece suit and T-shirt. Paranoid that Carlin would say something "not approved for TV," studio execs implemented a 6 second delay ...
You know, in my gut, I knew I should have kept lying. But my advisors told me to disregard my deepest personal convictions, and tell the truth. Frankly, the idea of telling the truth repulsed me. See more » Getting Started|Contributor Zone» ...
Funded by the royal family, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Tavistock pioneered the techniques of propaganda used to justify war. Outright lies about German atrocities in WWI resonate down through the decades to lies about Saddam Hussein's gassing Kurds and killing babies in Kuwait. Of cour...
Raymond Hood(1881-1934) might have been short in stature, but he stood tall among the architects of some of New York’s most iconic skyscrapers — Rockefeller Plaza, American Radiator, Daily News, McGraw Hill (Sadly, both his career and his life were cut short when he died in 1934 at ...