Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What looked like a long-drawn, cautious auction was going on in the offices of the U. S. Shipping Board at No. 45 Broadway all last week. If it was an auction, it was one of the major deals of U. S. shipping history, for on the block was no less a prize-or white elephant-than the U. S. Lines, proudest Atlantic fleet in the country. Discussions had been going on slowly for weeks, ever since mid-June when President Paul Wadsworth Chapman and the U. S. Lines' directors went to Washington to explain their troubles to Shipping...
...tail board down so his load dribbled out through the town's streets. Here & there growers plowed their crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable to harvest his 155-acre stand, watched 2,800 bu. bring $100 at auction-about 3½? per bu. or less than the cost of the seed. Declared Governor Woodring: "There is panic in the midst of plenty...
Suit was brought in London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent for John Pierpont Morgan. The Morgan agent finally bought the manuscript for $165,000. Mrs. Noyes testified that Mrs. Westby simply had acted upon her suggestion that someone start the bidding, that no fee had been stipulated...
...droit de suite occasionally rights wrongs. In 1926 The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, who died in poverty, fetched 420,000 francs ($16,800) at a Paris auction. Rousseau's sister, a Mme Bernard, sued the original owner, M. Eichenberger, for her 3% ($504) which he refused to pay on the grounds that it was not a real sale. His own agents had bid the picture in at the reserve price of 420,000 fr. when it was not exceeded. In court, Mme Bernard...
Merrily St. Gandhi cried, "Let us have an auction! How much am I bid for these good gifts...