Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auction day for this year's fishing rights fell last week. As the big, bearded Russians and the little, rough-handed Japanese gathered in Vladivostok with their bids, the Soviet Government abruptly informed the Japanese that the ruble-yen rate was now 75 sen. As the yen had depreciated to 30? since the old rate was fixed, it had dragged the ruble in terms of yen to 10?. The new rate raised it to 22?. Angrily the Japanese submitted their usual bids with deposits on the old rate. None was accepted...
...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...
...fads too often puff them out of line with real values. Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter blast of a public auction in Manhattan's Rains Auction Rooms. Before a hard-boiled dealer and socialite crowd, one of Modigliani's tuberculous women sold for the evening's top price, $3,300; another for $650. A pale, pink Pascin girl brought $800; a smudge-eyed Laurencin woman, $550; a Picasso...
Last week Editor Baker's fight with the Canawacta Water Supply Co. reached an extraordinary crisis. The water company had started suits against 200 of its customers to make them pay their bills. The customers had refused and their property was put up at auction. First piece under the hammer was none other than the Susquehanna Evening Transcript, which had balked at a water bill of $22.70. Biggest crowd that ever attended a Susquehanna auction gathered in the Transcript editorial room, hissed water company agents sent to bid prices high enough to satisfy their employers' claims...
...Minneapolis' Municipal Auditorium appeared freckle-faced, earnest Actress Eva Le Gallienne to auction off four cakes at a Roosevelt birthday ball. Briskly she banged a gavel, exhorted 4,000 shuffling, indifferent dancers through a microphone: "These cakes represent something! They represent the struggle of a man to overcome a tremendous physical handicap. ... I wasn't born in America, but I'll buy that cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while...