Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant in the Moraga Valley. But last summer, despite Slip Madigan and its football team (whose expenses ate up all the gate receipts), St. Mary's was sold at auction for $411,150 to a committee of bondholders for default of payments on $1,370,500 in outstanding bonds (TIME, Aug. 2). That ended its fourth life, but St. Mary's still had some left. Four months ago another San Francisco archbishop, Rev. John Joseph Mitty, marched into the bondholders...
...contract bridge replaced auction and auction players became hopelessly confused by contract's elaborate mathematics, more and more people turned to Mr. Culbertson for instruction. In 1930 the Culbertsons were taken in hand by Manhattan Pressagent Benjamin Sonnenberg, and before long they had their pictures in the papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel...
Catalogued by old, famed Sotheby's auction rooms in London as "The Property of a Gentleman, a well-known Collector," the Hearst hoard weighed 31,000 ounces or almost precisely one ton. Some of the pieces had been acquired as recently as six months ago. Most of them had been bought by high-bidding Hearst agents, once known as the most prominent silver buyers in London. Over a green baize table in Sotheby's quiet Bond Street rooms last week, red-faced Auctioneer Major Felix Walter Warre sold all 86 items to nodding, winking bidders...
Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into a meeting where all comers can auction and buy dogs of all varieties...
Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...