Carnegie spent energy and resources lobbying congress for a continuation of favorable tariffs from which he earned millions of dollars a year.

In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.

Long Neck Point from Contentment Island by John Frederick Kensett, collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, depicting the area where Andrew Carnegie spent some summers

* Gunnar Myrdal, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, and later Stockholm University, spent many years in the U. S. writing the book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, an investigation into the situation of African Americans, funded by the Carnegie Foundation.

Prior to joining George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he spent two years, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005.

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.

Kagan spent 13 years as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe in September 2010.

But while Andrew Carnegie found a father-figure ( in Tom Scott, a family friend ) after the death of Will Carnegie in 1855, Thomas did not and spent most of his life emulating his brother.

While Andrew Carnegie and Thomas N. Miller spent the better part of the next year touring Europe, Thomas Carnegie flourished at the Union Iron Mills.

During the Great Depression years, Bauer also spent summers teaching at Mills College, the Carnegie Institute, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music as well as Juilliard.

Schild spent the next eleven years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he helped to develop the first atomic clocks.

Ellie Mao, soprano, and Frederick Fuller, baritone, presented a program of folksongs entitled `` East Meets West '' in Carnegie Recital Hall last night.

The Symphony Of The Air, greatly assisted by Van Cliburn, last night got its seven-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall off to a good start.

The famous Carnegie Hall " milk and cookies " performance, portrayed in the film as one of his last performances after being diagnosed with cancer, had in fact occurred in 1979, five years before Kaufman's death.

The last remaining of 15 Carnegie libraries in New Jersey built with $ 15, 000 in funds from the Carnegie Foundation, the Edgewater Free Library was dedicated on February 8, 1916.

Toscanini made his first recordings in December 1920 with the La Scala Orchestra in the Trinity Church studio of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey and his last with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in June 1954 in Carnegie Hall.

Selwart's last American stage appearances were with the Lotte Lenya in the 1964 tour of Brecht on Brecht and in the 1965 Carnegie Hall performance of Die Dreigroschenoper ( The Threepenny Opera ).

Carnegie Steel's Mingo Junction, Ohio plant was the last major unionized steel mill in the country.

In 1995, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had a major retrospective of his works from the last two decades of exhibitions at acclaimed institutions such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm Moderna Museet, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Butler was the last living member of the original board selected by Andrew Carnegie in 1910.

In 1946, he gave his last recital at Carnegie Hall, home to his 151 appearances, and retired to private life in 1948.

About 20 years later, Newcomb allegedly influenced the Carnegie Institution Trustees, to prevent C. S. Peirce's last chance to publish his life's work, through a denial of a Carnegie grant to Peirce, even though Andrew Carnegie himself, Theodore Roosevelt, William James and others, wrote to support it.

When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3, 500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.

The Hunts Point Branch of the New York Public Library was completed in 1929 as the last Carnegie library in the system.

Her last public appearance was a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1972 as part of the New York Jazz Festival, where she was enthusiastically received.

At Carnegie Hall in New York, Christmas 1931, he sang in the world premiere of Maria egiziaca ( Mary in Egypt ), unexpectedly conducted by the composer Ottorino Respighi himself when famed conductor Arturo Toscanini fell ill at the last minute.

* Carnegie have also sponsored the last three Rugby League World Club Challenge matches.

It opened on 1 January 1908 and is the last Carnegie library in Belfast still functioning as a library.

It opened in 1908, and is the last Carnegie library in Santa Clara County still operating as a public library.

The last time Dungeness was used was for the 1929 wedding of a Carnegie daughter.

In January 2004, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace scholars Joseph Cirincione, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, and George Perkovich publish their study WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications, which looked into Saddam's relationship with al-Qaeda and concluded that " although there have been periodic meetings between Iraqi and Al Qaeda agents, and visits by Al Qaeda agents to Baghdad, the most intensive searching over the last two years has produced no solid evidence of a cooperative relationship between Saddam's government and Al Qaeda.

Prominent nearby landmarks include Argentine Carnegie Library ( the last Carnegie library in the Kansas City metropolitan area ), the grave of the Shawnee prophet Tensquatawa at White Feather Spring, Sauer Castle at 945 Shawnee Road, and the Argentine mural located at 30th Street and Metropolitan Avenue.

Carnegie learned much about management and cost control during these years, and from Scott in particular.

In 1901, Carnegie was 66 years of age and considering retirement.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

Over the course of twenty years, Carnegie ’ s steel properties grew to include the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, the Lucy Furnace Works, the Union Iron Mills, the Homestead Works, the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines among many other industry related assets.

Andrew Carnegie is described in John Dos Passos ' 42nd Parallel as a confident man in whatever he invested in, which included many things that our world flourished on for many years to the present time.

" In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. ( Cliff ) Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.

During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ), where a consortium of nine US universities ( namely M. I. T, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University,

In 1961, years before meeting Lennon, she had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall ( not the larger " Main Hall ").

* May 9 – The pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to stage after a 12 years absence performing a legendary concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.

After two years of research the newly formed Children's Television Workshop ( CTW ) received a combined grant of $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U. S. Federal Government to create and produce a new children's television show.

The Steinway Hall seated more than 2, 000 and quickly became an important part of New York City's cultural life, housing the New York Philharmonic for the next 25 years until Carnegie Hall opened in 1891.

It was Walter who would convince Andrew Carnegie that New York needed a first-class concert hall and on May 5, 1891, both Walter and Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new Music Hall, which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie.

He had been director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 12 years, where he had also served as chief curator and curator of contemporary art.

In addition the orchestra, with Tilson Thomas, appears regularly at Carnegie Hall and has, for the past several years, had residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.

After serving as managing director for 21 years, Clive Gillinson left to become chief executive of Carnegie Hall, New York.

Five years of intensive archeological investigations at Mayapan were conducted by the archaeologists of the Carnegie Institution in the 1950s, including A. L. Smith, Robert Smith, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Edwin Shook, Karl Ruppert and J. Eric Thompson.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) awarded Carnegie Mellon $ 3. 63M over four years for equipment and administrative travel for the Million Book Project.

On May 14, 1913, New York Governor William Sulzer approved a state charter for the foundation-two years after the Carnegie Corporation-with Junior becoming the first president.

* " It's 20 years ago bossa nova was released to the world at Carnegie Hall in New York " by Rénato Sergio, Manchete magazine, 1982 ( in Portuguese )

:“ The employees in the mill of Messrs. Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Homestead, Pa., have built there a town with its homes, its schools and its churches ; have for many years been faithful co-workers with the company in the business of the mill ; have invested thousands of dollars of their savings in said mill in the expectation of spending their lives in Homestead and of working in the mill during the period of their efficiency.

Carnegie Steel remained nonunion for the next 40 years.