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After the war, Carnegie left the railroads to devote all his energies to the ironworks trade.
In doing so, Carnegie left mediation of the dispute in the hands of his associate and partner Henry Clay Frick.
File: Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, 1913-crop. jpg | Andrew Carnegie
Walter ended his Munich appointment in 1922 and left for New York in 1923, working with the New York Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall ; he later conducted in Detroit, Minnesota and Boston.
After serving as managing director for 21 years, Clive Gillinson left to become chief executive of Carnegie Hall, New York.
The group reformed in 1955, releasing the influential The Weavers at Carnegie Hall album in 1957, before disbanding for a second time in 1964, although Seeger had left the group in 1958.
He would work there until 1935 when he left for a position at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D. C.
Can a service vehicle turn left from eastbound Carnegie Street onto northbound Hooligan Boulevard?
Carnegie made multiple attempts to force Frick out of the company they had created by making it appear that the company had nowhere left to go and that it was time for Frick to retire.
In 1919 he was left an annuity of £ 1000 by Andrew Carnegie which left him financially independent and he spent the rest of his life devoted to his interests in books, London history and cricket.
He was admitted to Carnegie Mellon University, intending to study drama, but he left four months into his first semester.
The day after its official opening, in 1906, the original Carnegie library opened several hours later than expected, because the mass of people who had come to the opening day left the entire library in complete disarray, and had walked off with many items.
File: Carnegie Hills. JPG | University Hill ( left ) and Carnegie Hill ( right )
In 1920 when Merriam left the University to become president of the Carnegie Institution, the paleontology department was merged with the geology department, displeasing both Merriam and Alexander.
In 1920 he was appointed dean of faculties, but he left that same year to become president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D. C ..
In America, the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O ' Connell continued where they left off, still packing Carnegie Hall.
At first, Cooney assumed that the project would be produced by Channel Thirteen, but when the station's owner rejected the proposal and questioned Cooney's credentials, she left the station and went to the Carnegie Corporation as a full-time consultant in May 1967.
He left the Chair of the Drama Department in 1928, but Payne returned every year through 1951 ( except for the years at Stratford ), directing 58 plays at Carnegie between 1914 and 1951, 26 of them by Shakespeare.
A Coelophysis skull from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-89 when it left the atmosphere on January 22, 1998.
She then attended Carnegie Mellon University for one year, but left to pursue a theatrical career full-time.
Swann left Sheffield in 1913, when he went to the United States to join the Carnegie Institute, becoming head of the Physical Division of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.

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An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.
Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.
Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.
Carnegie once gave $ 25, 000 to Speaker of the House David B. Henderson to erect a library on the campus of Upper Iowa University in his name.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.
Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.
Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.
In 1864, Carnegie invested $ 40, 000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
In 1881, Carnegie took his family, including his 70 year-old mother, on a trip to the United Kingdom.
To counter what he perceived as imperialism on the part of the United States, Carnegie personally offered $ 20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States.
From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.
Carnegie served on the Board of Cornell University.
" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.
Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.
The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.
Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.
Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.
Carnegie held that societal progress relied on individuals meeting their moral obligations to themselves and to society.
Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.
He did not oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Carnegie stood still on his opposition towards the annexation of the Philippines.
The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.
In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

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