Sentences with phrase «industrialist john»

The house is designated for its Gothic Revival architecture, which includes a steeply pitched roof and gable dormers, and for its association with industrialist John A. Humphrey and his son and business partner, William F. Humphrey.

He juxtaposed contrasting colors to create bold silk screens, as in this portrait of his friend, the wife of industrialist John Powers.

On a recent afternoon, he sat in the Beverly Hills headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, having recently flown in from Europe, where he was working on two upcoming projects, the sci - fi thriller «Ad Astra» and the FX series «Trust,» in which he will play billionaire industrialist John Paul Getty.

This film is a look at German Industrialist John Rabe who lived and worked in China, and was one of the key players who established a safety zone for the locals during the occupation of China by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army.

Tiverton was the more industrial, heading the lace - making industry in the South - West under the industrialist John Heathcoat and his family who provided several MPs for the seat in the nineteenth and twentieth century (David Heathcoat - Amory, the former minister and MP for Wells, is his great - great - grandson).

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Speaking on Saturday night at a private donor retreat here hosted by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn opposed the idea.

The industrialist, Like John Gault, is nto deserving of the government's charity, yet manipulates the system through accountants and lawyers to pay not taxes at all, while the average Joe is forced to pay through the nose.

Inventor of continuous mechanised paper production techniques, John Dickinson (1782 - 1869) established mills across the world at the height of his powers as a leading, Victorian industrialist.

Wong is visited by Simon Dayton (John Hamilton), an industrialist fearing for his life.

Like director Ridley Scott's recent film with Christopher Plummer (replacing Kevin Spacey) as Getty, «All the Money in the World,» the 10 - episode first season of «Trust» puts the focus on the 1973 kidnapping of the industrialist's grandson, John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson).

The eccentric Marty has been hand - picked by the Motch brothers (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd), billionaire industrialists with ties to China.

Indeed, it kind of is in the perversely droll All the Money in the World, the troubled Ridley Scott film which details the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, one of the grandchildren of the famed wealthy American industrialist J. Paul Getty, termed the richest man in the world during the period.

Imagine his surprise, then, when weird Marty (Zach Galifianakis), backed by the powerful industrialist Motch brothers (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd), enters the fray.

Scott devotes nearly an hour to slowly fashioning close ties between John Creasy (Washington), a boozy retired assassin whos mired in a suicidal funk, and Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning), the chipper daughter of a Mexico City couple industrialist (Marc Anthony) and his American wife (Radha Mitchell) who fear their child may attract kidnappers.

John D. Rockefeller was one of the most successful industrialists in American history, amassing a fortune that peaked at nearly $ 1 billion.

There has been an increasing number of energy industrialists and other experts who have questioned the wisdom of Arctic drilling, including former BP chief executive John Browne and Fatih Birol, new executive director at the International Energy Agency.

Before he went on to design the iconic TWA Terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, or St. Louis» world - famous Gateway Arch, Eero Saarinen was commissioned by industrialist J. Irwin Miller to design that's been called the most significant midcentury modern home ever built.