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...Hill, who has voted against the Basel III proposals, would become FDIC chair if Gruenberg were to leave his role....
...Berkshire hit back in November, accusing the founder’s son Jimmy Haslam III, co-owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, of seeking to suborn executives at Pilot into inflating the company’s profits,...
...The brown furniture is a mixed bag, but I was taken with a pair of George III satinwood secretaire cabinets with pretty lozenge-shaped glass doors, which at 253cm would show off a tall ceiling to advantage...
...He points to The County of London Plan, written in 1945 by Edward Julian Carter and Ernő Goldfinger (of Trellick Tower fame), as a clear forerunner, with its outlines for various postwar rebuilding schemes...
...For those who like their furniture brown, Bamfords Fine Art, Antiques and Country House Sale, starting October 26, is chock full of Georgian pieces with low reserves....
...Don’t miss Rana Foroohar, Edward Luce and other FT journalists on May 7 at the inaugural US edition of the FTWeekend Festival, featuring Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William J Burns, Tina Brown...
...Tina Brown and Jennifer Egan....
...In this chair we see the quintessence of George III and 18th-century Irish furniture, with eastern influence demonstrated by the pierced shapes in the back rails....
...Join us on May 7 at our inaugural US edition of the FTWeekend Festival, with leading luminaries including Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William J Burns, Tina Brown, and Jennifer Egan....
...But the Pentagon bureaucracy and overseers on Capitol Hill have been resistant to both Berger and Brown’s initiatives....
...Ed Markey, a 74-year-old US senator, staved off a challenge from Joe Kennedy III, a 39-year-old grandson of Robert F Kennedy and great-nephew of John F Kennedy....
...His great-uncle, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, was a US senator for nearly half a century, until his death in 2009....
...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...It will be not only ‘we hired that brown girl’ but ‘we hired that brown girl and she did great.’”...
...Maybe we just don’t need J Crew any more....
...Richard Nixon, Washington, DC, August 10 1975; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Frederick Weyand, chief of staff, US Army; Admiral James Holloway, chief of naval operations, US Navy; General George Brown...
...Robert Shrimsley imagines how past royals, including Richard III or Henry II, would have responded to a BBC Newsnight grilling....
...range from a loose, bold study of drapery by Sir Peter Lely to a highly finished gouache on vellum, a meticulous reduced version of Poussin’s “Hercules Between Virtue and Pleasure”, made by Bernard Lens III...
...Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was the leading collector of his day....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...Working with his friend Edward William Cooke, a marine artist with an interest in zoology, ecology and horticulture, Bateman’s garden was the blueprint for Victorian eclecticism....
...His son, Jimmy Haslam III is the company’s chief executive and also the owner of the Cleveland Browns American football team....
...Alphonse Legros was more or less a Pre-Raphaelite: an earnest portrait of red-bearded Edward Burne-Jones and painstaking genre scenes “The Tinker” and “The Soup Kitchen” are among 16 works on display....
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