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Wiggin and J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1917 in Manhattan at a war bond parade. Albert Henry Wiggin (February 21, 1868 – May 21, 1951) was an American banker.General Electric's Owen D. Young once described him as "the most colorful and attractive figure in the commercial banking world" of his time. [1]
A century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850–1950 (1954) Steely, Mel. The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich Mercer University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-86554-671-1. Tuck, Stephen G. N. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940–1980. University of Georgia Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8203-2265-2.
Georgia Historical Quarterly 77.2 (1993): 286-309. online; Burns, Rebecca. Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot (U of Georgia Press, 2009). Davis, Harold E. Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, A Brave Beautiful City. (U of Alabama Press, 1990). Dittmer, John. Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (1977) Dorsey ...
In November 1929, U.S. Senator Carter Glass said, "Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for this stock crash." [ 3 ] Mitchell's townhouse on Fifth Avenue , built for him by Walker & Gillette in 1926, with a rusticated facade in the manner of a 16th-century Roman palazzo, now houses the Consulate General of France, New York City .
1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication. 1929 Atlanta University Center Consortium established. City Hall built. [2] January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. is born. WGST radio begins broadcasting. [35] 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro 715,391. [7] 1931 - WATL radio begins broadcasting. [35] 1933 - Georgia Municipal Association ...
Frank Owen Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, [4] [5] to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. [6] His American father was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, and his Polish-Jewish mother was an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland .
Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, as well as Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves. [38] In lighter media, a few stars of the comic industry made their debut, including Tintin , a comic book character created by Hergé , who would appear in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.
This raid was depicted in the 1927 Buster Keaton film The General and the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase. A movie theater inside the museum showed a short film about the Atlanta Campaign to visitors before they viewed the painting. The 14-minute film was called The Atlanta Campaign, and was directed by and narrated by James Earl Jones.