|
Guggenheim Family
The Guggenheim family ( ) is an American-Jewish family known for making their fortune in the mining industry, in the early 20th century, especially in the United States and South America. After World War I, many family members withdrew from the businesses and became involved in philanthropy, especially in the arts, aviation, medicine, and culture. History Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss citizen of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, arrived in the United States in 1847. His surname derived from the name of the Alsatian village of Gougenheim. He married Barbara Meyer, whom he met in the United States. Over the next few decades, their 11 children and their descendants became known for global successes in mining and smelting businesses, under the name Guggenheim Exploration, including the American Smelting and Refining Company. In the early 20th century, the family amassed one of the largest fortunes in the world. Following World War I, it sold its global mining interests and later purch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lengnau, Aargau
Lengnau () is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Zurzach (district), Zurzach in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is notable for being one of two villages where residence was permitted for Swiss Jews between 1633 and 1874. Lengnau's synagogue is listed as a Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance, heritage site of national significance. History The remains of a Switzerland in the Roman era, Roman era farm was discovered near Lengnau. The modern municipality of Lengnau is first mentioned in 798 as ''Lenginwanc''. The ''Herrschaft (territory), Herrschaft'' rights were claimed by both the Bishop (Catholic Church), Bishop of Bishop of Constance, Constance and the House of Habsburg, Habsburgs. After the conquest of the Aargau in 1415, the Bishop and the County of Baden continued to dispute the rights over the village. It wasn't until the late 15th century that the rights went over entir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. It is located in East Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the eastern border of Central Park stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. The Mount Sinai Hospital is a tertiary and quaternary care facility and as such offers care in all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. The hospital is a AIDS center, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program Hospital, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Regional Perinatal Center. The maternity program is among the busiest in New York State with just over 7,000 deliveries per year. In March 2023, the hospital was ranked 23rd among over 2,300 hospitals in the world and the best hospital in New York state by ''Newsweek.'' Adjacent to the hospital is the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital which provides comprehensive pediatric specialties an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon R
Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated Israel and Judah. The hypothesized dates of Solomon's reign are from 970 to 931 BCE. According to the biblical narrative, after Solomon's death, his son and successor Rehoboam adopted harsh policies towards the northern Israelites, who then rejected the reign of the House of David and sought Jeroboam as their king. In the aftermath of Jeroboam's Revolt, the Israelites were split between the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Kingdom of Israel in the north (Samaria) and the Kingdom of Judah in the south (Judea); the Bible depicts Rehoboam and the rest of Solomon's Patrilineality#In the Bible, patrilineal descendants ruling over independent Judah alone. A Prophets in Judaism, Jewish prophet, Solomon is portrayed as wealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Guggenheim
Edmond Alfred Guggenheim (January 19, 1888 – March 16, 1972) was an American copper industry businessman and philanthropist. He was a member of the Guggenheim family. Biography Guggenheim was born on January 19, 1888, in Switzerland to Murry Guggenheim and Leonie Bernheim. His father was the third son of mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim and his mother was descended from a prominent Alsatian Jewish family. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1908 and a Ph.B. from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1911. Guggenheim joined the family business in 1916 and headed its mining explorations and was its vice president in charge of South American operations. In 1961, Guggenheim retired as director of the Kennecott Copper Corporation and the Braden Copper Company. In 1919, he was also named Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City in charge of The Bronx and severed on several commissions in the New York City Police Department. He was also a pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. As of 1993, the publisher has been a division of Macmillan Publishers, Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Founding Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. The first book was ''Yank: The G.I. Story of the War'', a compilation of articles that appeared in ''Yank, the Army Weekly'', then ''There Were Two Pirates'', a novel by James Branch Cabell. The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book ''Look Younger, Live Longer'' by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Williams Straus Jr
Roger is a masculine given name, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic languages">Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Franks, Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is '' Rodger''. Slang and other uses From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entendre and the pirate term "Jolly Roger". In 19th-century England, Roger was slang for another term, the cloud of toxic green gas that swept through the chlori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim Straus
Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim Straus (August 15, 1895 – March 14, 1980) was an American heiress who became an expert on food and nutrition. Early life She was born in Elberon, New Jersey, on August 15, 1895, as Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim. She was a daughter of Florence (née Shloss) Guggenheim (1863–1944) and Daniel Guggenheim. She had two brothers, who were both U.S. Ambassadors, Meyer Robert Guggenheim (to Portugal) and Harry Frank Guggenheim (to Cuba). Her father who assumed control of the Guggenheim family enterprises after her grandfather's death in 1905, and her mother was a co-founder, and president, of the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the treasurer of the Women's National Republican Club from its inception in 1921 to 1938. Her paternal grandparents were Barbara (née Myers) Guggenheim and Meyer Guggenheim, the Swiss-born patriarch of the Guggenheim family. At the time of Gladys' death in 1980, she was the second last surviving grandchild of Meyer Guggenheim. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Hamilton
Diane Hamilton was the pseudonym of Diane Guggenheim (1924–1991), an American mining heiress, folksong patron and founder of Tradition Records. Personal life The only child of millionaire Harry Frank Guggenheim, president of ''Newsday'' and onetime U. S. ambassador to Cuba, and his second wife, Caroline Morton (formerly Mrs William Chapman Potter), Hamilton was born as Diana Guggenheim in New York City, New York (state), New York, United States. She had two half-sisters, Joan (born 1913) and Nancy (1915–1972), from her father's first marriage to Helen Rosenberg. Her maternal grandfather was Paul Morton (politician), Paul Morton, U. S. Secretary of the Navy, while her maternal great-grandfather was Julius Sterling Morton, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture. She was married and divorced four times: *Lieutenant John Langstaff, John Meredith Langstaff, a U. S. Army officer and aspiring concert singer, married 1943. They had one child, Diane Carol Langstaff (Mrs Peter Duveneck, Mrs Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Frank Guggenheim
Harry Frank Guggenheim (August 23, 1890 – January 22, 1971) was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman. Early life He was born August 23, 1890, in the Wst End section of Long Branch, New Jersey. He was the second son of Florence (née Shloss) Guggenheim (1863–1944) and Daniel Guggenheim. He had an older brother, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Meyer Robert Guggenheim, and a younger sister, Gladys Guggenheim Straus. His father who assumed control of the Guggenheim family enterprises after his grandfather's death in 1905, and his mother was a co-founder, and president, of the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the treasurer of the Women's National Republican Club from its inception in 1921 to 1938. He graduated in 1907 from the Columbia Grammar School in Manhattan, and then he attended the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. He later left Yale and served a three-year apprenticeship at the American Smelting and Refin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyer Robert Guggenheim
Meyer Robert Guggenheim (May 17, 1885 – November 16, 1959) was an American diplomat and a member of the Guggenheim family. Born in New York City, he was the son of Daniel Guggenheim (1856–1930), brother of Harry Frank Guggenheim, and nephew of Simon Guggenheim. In January 1938 he married his 4th wife Rebecca Pollard in Miami Beach on his yacht Firenze. Pollard had finalized her divorce to William van Lennep a week earlier. After Guggenheim's death she married John Logan. He attended Columbia College with the class of 1907, but left before graduation. In 1909 he donated the trophy and prize money for the Ocean to Ocean Automobile Endurance Contest that coincided with the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. As the contest was underway; he was arrested for speeding in New York City - a possible publicity stunt. He served with the United States Army during World War I. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Portugal, serving between 1953 and 1954. Guggenheim died in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim (July 9, 1856 – September 28, 1930) was an American mining magnate and philanthropist, and a son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim. By 1910 he directed the world's most important group of mining interests. He was forced out in 1922 and retired to philanthropy to promote aviation. His achievements include a system for innovation, as well as leadership in amicable labor relations, and major roles in aviation and rocketry. Biography Guggenheim was born and raised in Philadelphia, the son of Meyer Guggenheim and his wife Barbara. Meyer Guggenheim was of Jewish descent. Daniel Guggenheim was sent to Switzerland as a young man to study the Swiss lace and embroidery business, and to serve as a buyer for his father's import firm. The discovery of high-grade silver-lead ore in the Guggenheim mines in Leadville, Colorado, in 1881 became the foundation for the Guggenheim fortune in mining. In 1884, Daniel returned to the US to help manage the family's booming mining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departures (magazine)
''Departures'' is an American digital lifestyle magazine with a focus on luxury and travel for holders of American Express Platinum and Centurion Card, Centurion charge cards. It was formerly a print magazine published by Meredith Corporation under an arrangement with American Express. On March 25, 2021, it was announced that ''Departures'' would cease print publication, and, according to an American Express statement, transition "to a new digital-first editorial platform." American Express announced that it was ending its publishing deal with Meredith. The longtime editor-in-chief was Richard David Story, who had previously worked at ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' and Esquire (magazine), ''Esquire''. He spent 17 years at ''Departures'' before leaving in 2017. "Richard had the essential ingredient required of a great editor – massive curiosity", said Graydon Carter, the longtime editor of ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair''. "It carried him through an enviable run at Departure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
