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Carnegie offered to buy Dungeness on August 25, 1880, for $ 25, 000 but his offer was rejected.
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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.
* After the Spanish American War, Carnegie offered to donate $ 20 million to the Philippines so they could buy their independence.
In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.
In 1928, he began work on his PhD in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, but, before he finished it, he was offered a position at the Carnegie Institute of Washington.
The AA offered to make no demands or set any preconditions ; the union merely asked that Carnegie Steel reopen the negotiations.
In 1961 Jordan was offered a Carnegie bursary to do research in the United States of America, but was refused a passport by the South African government.
A friend of Jacqueline du Pré, he began cello studies with her at the age of 41 when she offered to teach him on the condition that he perform on his 50th birthday at Carnegie Hall in New York, which he did.
The proof of the strong perfect graph theorem won for its authors a $ 10, 000 prize offered by Gérard Cornuéjols of Carnegie Mellon University and the 2009 Fulkerson Prize.
One night after a Jon Lucien concert at Carnegie Hall he went to see Phyllis perform and offered her a spot as the female vocalist on his fourth album for Buddah Records.
A certification covering PSP is offered by the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Weavers ' Carnegie Hall version of " Wimoweh " became a favourite song of The Tokens — they used it as their audition piece when they were offered a contract with RCA Records — and this led to them recording it as their first RCA single.
Carnegie offered to join the search for the missing men, but despite his familiarity with the search area, he was not sent out immediately, being instead put on standby in Halls Creek.
But after the death of Gen. Davis ' son and grandson at the property, Davis desired to leave the place which had brought him such grief and Carnegie offered and Davis accepted a price of $ 35, 000.
In 1906 Carnegie formally offered $ 30, 000 for the construction of two branch libraries, as long as the city provided a site and arranged financial support for the library.
Carnegie had offered funds for a black branch library, but the library system did not use the money until 1921 when the system opened the Auburn Avenue Branch Library, the first branch library for blacks.
Later they also offered " CyberCoin ", a micropayment system modeled after the NetBill research project at Carnegie Mellon University, which they later licensed.
In 1948, Carnegie was given a tryout with the New York Rangers and offered a contract to play in the Rangers ' minor league system.
" In 1978, he was offered return concerts at Carnegie Hall, but he declined.
Carnegie and buy
To this end, he needed to buy out Carnegie and several other major producers and integrate them into one company, thereby eliminating duplication and waste.
In August 2011, Apollo group announced it would buy 100 % of Carnegie Learning to accelerate its efforts to incorporate adaptive learning into its academic platform.
From 1998 through to the end of the 2006 – 07 season, the club used the name Leeds Tykes, but on 14 May 2007 it was announced that Leeds Metropolitan University would buy a 51 % stake in the club and change the name to fit with the university's sport department, Carnegie College.
However, the condition of the building had declined by 1897, when wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie took a one year lease, with an option to buy.
Andrew Carnegie decided to stop relying solely on his company's own furnaces for coke, and began seeking to buy the fuel on the open market.
In 1881, Andrew sent Thomas to meet with Henry Clay Frick, owner of H. C. Frick & Co .— the largest coke producing company in the U. S. Thomas ' goal was to induce Frick to buy the Carnegie coke ovens.
Frick now attempted to buy into the Carnegie steel companies by selling 12 of the remaining 16 percent of the H. C. Frick which he still owned, but Thomas warned him not to try and to instead seek a position as a manager within the company.
Carnegie and Dungeness
Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.
In 1884, they began building a mansion on the site of Dungeness, though Carnegie never lived to see its completion.
The last time Dungeness was used was for the 1929 wedding of a Carnegie daughter.
Carnegie and on
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.
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.
Carnegie left on a trip to Scotland before the unrest peaked.
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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