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During his career as an insurance executive and actuary, Ives devised creative ways to structure life-insurance packages for people of means, which laid the foundation of the modern practice of estate planning. [22] His Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, published in 1918, was well received. As a result of this he achieved ...
[5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists. [7]
Van Zandt started TeachRock to help keep music and the arts in K-12 public schools by creating and providing lesson plans that integrate music history into state education standards, covering math ...
Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007) Gender, race, and sexuality in music theory. Popular music [219] Suzannah Clark: born 1969 Music theory and natural order from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century (2001) Franz Schubert, history of music theory, medieval music [220] Dmitri ...
Ben Feldman (September 7, 1912 – November 7, 1993) was an American businessman and one of the most prolific salespeople in history. [1] [2] As early as 1979, Feldman had sold more life insurance than anyone in history. [3] He sold life insurance policies with a total face value of about $1.5-billion [4] for New York Life from 1942 to his ...
Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, established in 1706, was the first life insurance company in the world. The first life table was written by Edmund Halley in 1693, but it was only in the 1750s that the necessary mathematical and statistical tools were in place for the development of modern life insurance.
MusiCares has named Jon Bon Jovi the Person of the Year for their 33rd annual benefit gala taking place on Feb. 2 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, just two nights before the 66th annual ...
The following is a list of crooners and includes artists who have been described as a crooner at some point in their career. Crooners are singers who sing in a soft, intimate style made possible by the introduction of microphones and amplification .