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...five original drafts of the Treaty of Versailles, property of France's late, great Foreign Minister Louis Barthou who was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15), fetched $2,736 this week in Paris at an auction of his library. On the first auction day $69,498 was realized. M. Barthou's collection of erotica having been unrivaled. A comparatively pure item of Napoleon-to-Josephine letters fetched...
...Dutch auction is the public offer of property at a high price, then at gradually lowering prices, until someone buys...
...India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support of the princes...
...hundred and fifty-eight dollars was all that the French Government realized from an auction of the personal belongings of the late Great Swindler Alexandre Serge Stavisky, against whose estate lie claims...
...Washington society it was an occasion, to His Excellency Mehmet Munir Bey, Ambassador of the Turkish Republic,, it was an opportunity. Last week, the pictures and knick knacks of Mrs. John Brooks Henderson's bulbous brownstone castle on 16th Street went on the auction block...