(Signed limited edition hardback book (no dust jacket) tit...)
Signed limited edition hardback book (no dust jacket) titled THE SEVEN SKIES by Harry Guggenheim. Limited to 100 signed copies. See my photographs (4) of book and signatures on main listing page. (LL-17-middle-L)
La Integración del Hemisferio Ahora: Un Discurso (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition)
(Excerpt from La Integración del Hemisferio Ahora: Un Disc...)
Excerpt from La Integración del Hemisferio Ahora: Un Discurso
Pero hasta que las potencias hayan llegado a un grado de esclarecimiento que les permita atemperar su fuerza con la razón y la justicia, difícilmente se podrán albergar esperanzas de que las N aciones Unidas y la Organización de los Estados Americanos substituyan la política interna cional. Por supuesto que antes que_la justicia sea aceptable los _fuertes requerirán éstos la seguridad de que no será reemplazada por el propio interés de los débiles que tengan mayoría de votos.
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Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.
Background
Guggenheim was born on August 23, 1890, in West End, New Jersey, the son of Daniel Guggenheim, a mining magnate and philanthropist, and Florence Shloss, a strong supporter of women's rights. The family patriarch, Simon Meyer Guggenheim, a tailor, had emigrated from a Jewish ghetto in Lengnau, Switzerland, to America in 1848, settling in Philadelphia with his son Meyer. Meyer established the mineral industry in Colorado. A generation later, Daniel Guggenheim became head of the family firm, Guggenheim Brothers, and expanded its mining and smelting operations, and by 1901, the Guggenheims dominated mining in the United States.
Education
Harry attended the Columbia Grammar School in New York City. In 1907, after high school, he enrolled in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University to study mining but left in 1908, after one term, to learn the practical side of the mining business at the family-owned American Smelting and Refining Company works at Aguascalientes, Mexico. With a push from his father, in 1910 Guggenheim resumed his studies in England at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. There he majored in economics and political science, minored in chemistry, and earned a B. A. in 1913 and an M. A. in 1918.
Career
Returning from Cambridge to the United States in 1913, Guggenheim's career shifted into high gear. He plunged directly into his new mining responsibilities, first as director of several copper companies, including the Braden Copper Company, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and the Utah Copper Company, and then as a partner (1916-1923) in Guggenheim Brothers. Early in 1917, shortly before America's entry into World War I, Guggenheim began taking flight lessons at Lake Worth, near Palm Beach. He completed his training as a pilot on Long Island and, after receiving a commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve on September 14, 1917, was sent overseas, where he earned his wings at the American bombing and gunnery school outside Bordeaux, France. A lieutenant commander at the end of the war, Guggenheim was recalled to active duty in 1942, served on the USS Nehenta Bay in the Pacific, and rose to the rank of captain in 1945. Guggenheim's enthusiasm for the field of aviation influenced his father to earmark funds for this purpose. In 1925, he gave $500, 000 to endow the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University. The following year, he set up a $2. 5-million fund to start six more aeronautical schools in the United States. Harry Guggenheim served as president and a trustee of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics from 1926 until it was terminated in 1930. Appointed by President Herbert Hoover, Guggenheim served as ambassador to Cuba from September 1929 to April 1933, when he resigned. Instructed to follow a policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of Cuba, Guggenheim spent much of his time admonishing General Gerardo Machado y Morales, the island's dictator. Hoover also appointed him to the National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, on which he served from 1929 to 1938. Carrying on the family tradition, Guggenheim established his own foundation and also had jurisdiction over the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, founded by his uncle, whom he succeeded as board chairman in 1949, until the office was abolished and he was elected president of the board in 1957. He guided to completion the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1949, Guggenheim rejoined Guggenheim Brothers and in 1951 became president of the firm, which then revived its mining exploration. In 1951, he also became chairman of a family-controlled company, the Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate Corporation, with South American mines that produced more than half of the world's natural nitrate and iodine supply. A consummate businessman, Guggenheim also operated a thriving timber and cattle plantation at Cain Hoy, South Carolina, and bred and raced thoroughbred horses from a farm in Lexington, Kentucky. In later years, his principal business interest was Newsday, a tabloid daily newspaper serving suburban Long Island, New York, which he founded with his third wife in 1940. He sold it to Times-Mirror in 1970. Guggenheim died of cancer on January 22, 1971 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was buried in Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
President of the Pembroke College Lawn Tennis Club; President and a trustee of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (1926-1930); President of the Guggenheim Brothers (1951)
Connections
Guggenheim married Helen Rosenberg in November 1910; they had two children and were divorced. His second marriage, to Caroline Morton in February 1923, ended in divorce in 1939. The couple had one child. In 1939, Guggenheim married Alicia Patterson, who died in 1963; they had no children.