Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor of a grimy yellow brick building, white-crowned old Master Abbott pulled out a bound...
...Fifteen years ago the vast bulk of the Metropolitan Museum, the cluster of dealers along Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, and pre-auction exhibits at the Anderson and American Art Galleries (since combined), were about all the art that a visitor to Manhattan could see. Since then, thanks to public-spirited tycoons, the art map of New York has spread and sprouted richly. Today an art-conscious visitor should not leave Manhattan without a pilgrimage that will cover more than ten miles, take him into some 100 institutions. Among the most important stops...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...auction was ordered by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
...Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback and how the two Cleveland brothers had died almost within a year of each other, leaving...