Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...
...Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial...
...Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
...shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color-a "shivaree" at the wedding of the Martins' hired help, an auction at a foreclosed farm-are the only shots in Golden Harvest that really possess the sincerity to which the rest of the picture pretends...
Argentina's one-man Government, frustrated old Hipolito Irigoyen, died last July, stripped of power and mourned bitterly by 150,000 poor followers, including many who called themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas ("Personal Friends of Irigoyen"). Last week Irigoyen's ranch was put up for auction. A few "personal friends" showed up to buy his steers for $18 each, his horses...