Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...
...amiable, buzzing, first-night reception, divided $1,035 prize money among eleven of their number. Among the guests of honor were white-haired Art Patron Anne Morgan, Novelist Fannie Hurst. Top prize: $200 went to 50-year-old Dorothy Eaton of Petersham, Mass, for her large genre painting Country Auction. Another prize: $100 to 33-year-old Manhattanite Anne Eisner for Autumn Landscape, an earthy, heavily painted view of fields and houses...
...largest absolute partition sale of city real-estate lots in the history of the country": a four-day, 1918 auction of the 1,500 Bronx lots that made up the old Ogden Estate. Other famous-name estates partitioned by Day: Van Cortlandt, Astor, Harkness, Gould, Schwab, Doherty, Juilliard, James Gordon Bennett...
...about selling real estate coincided with the northward expansion of Manhattan. As he progressed from one "biggest deal in history" to the next, feature writers repeated the Joseph P. Day legends over & over. He was the man who used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted on acidophilus milk and lunched on crackers & milk...
...stepped in to fight the suit for Farmer Hulbert. Argued the County: state law compels it to auction off public property to the highest and best bidder. OPA's action was a clear invasion of States' rights. Last week District Judge James W. Porter ruled otherwise. His reasoning: the Price Control Act is an emergency war measure. "The spirit of the Act would be violated, its purposes thwarted and its enforcement thrown into confusion by a holding that the Act does not cover the transactions of 48 state governments, thousands of counties, municipalities, school districts...