Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to me about time the buildings across the Charles were sold at auction to the Alexander Hamilton Institute, or, better still, made into what they are already fast becoming--a home for cast-off Brain Trustees. Gilbert Satterthwaite...
...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
Administrators of the estate of the late Ivar Kreuger announced that, to satisfy creditors, $100,000 worth of his silverware, books, paintings, including a Bacchanalian by Peter Paul Rubens valued at $20,000, will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...
Included in an auction sale in Manhattan was a portrait done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...
...Nelsons had a horror of letting others use their personal belongings. The Nelson cars, upon their owners' death, were soaked in gasoline and burned. Their jewels, clothes and furniture were shipped 250 miles away to be sold at auction. Oak Hall, the family home, was taken apart brick by brick and the art museum erected on the site...