Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disgruntled former Nazis who have quit or been purged out of the Party, and have no further use for brown shirts, have sold so many to a Swabian old-clothesman named Pius Degenhart that last week he staged an auction at Memmingen, was promptly jailed for "dishonoring the National Socialist Party uniform...
...bloom and it managed to take root, yielded for years the "Nordica rose." In Lindsborg Nordica roses are pressed in memory books, in massive family Bibles. In Manhattan Lillian Nordica seemed all but forgotten last week when many of her most valuable household possessions were sold at public auction for less than...
They quarrel about everything, rudely finger-point each other's blunders in derisive front-page jibes. Their longest-standing squabble, concerning comic strips, reached a ludicrous end last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that...
...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...