Later there were sales to Henry Clay Frick and to Andrew Mellon and his son Paul.
Democrat James Polk wanted to annex Texas, a policy the Whig candidate Henry Clay warned would provoke war with Mexico.
Two years later, Helen Clay Frick (daughter of Henry Clay Frick) followed the Piero route Arezzo, Borgo San Sepolcro, Perugia on her first trip to Italy.
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True, Henry Clay Frick was a fellow giant of industry recently dubbed one of America's leading financiers by the New York Times and he and Andrew Carnegie had been partners once.
The words might have touched a chord in almost any other man, but Henry Clay Frick, still the ranking board member of U.S. Steel, showed no sign of gratitude or relief.
Their paintings were the most expensive school of art ever when the great American collectors such as Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Huntington and Andrew Mellon sent their value to the skies.
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He drew heavily from railroad and insurance interests, and in the last days before the election he reportedly made a personal appeal for funds to Henry Clay Frick, the steel baron, and other industrialists.
And such theft could have grave consequences: in 1844, when letters of Henry Clay exposing his ambivalence on the annexation of Texas were released, it cost him the Presidency he was favored to win.
One chapter that begins with a description of Duveen's relationship with Henry Clay Frick, who in his old age became one of Duveen's most important clients, directly follows another that ends with an account of the sinking of the Lusitania in the spring of 1915.
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Housed in the exquisite Bryce-Frick mansion (built in 1900 by General Lloyd Bryce and purchased by Childs Frick, son of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, 19 years later), the charming museum hosts a variety of changing exhibitions featuring the likes of Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro and African-American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Countless attempts were also made on the lives of bigger names, such as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1878), Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (May and June 1878), Andrew Carnegie's business partner, Henry Clay Frick (Pittsburgh, 1892), a Serbian minister (Paris, 1893) and King Alfonso XIII and his English bride (Madrid, on their wedding day, 1906).
Patriarch William Clay Ford, the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford, owned 9.5 million Class B shares, or 13.3% of the total, as of Feb. 1, 2010.
Mr Nasser was forced out in 2001 and William Clay Ford, great-grandson of the founder, Henry Ford, took over as head of the company.
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