Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published them. Last week they became effective. Lawyers agreed with Attorney General Cummings when he described them as "the most striking advance in the administration of justice in half a century." The new rules reminded card-playing legalists of the changes that came over bridge when it went from auction into contract...
...Deal, N. J., the 38-room summer home of 77-year-old William Crapo Durant ("Godfather of the Motor Car Industry," "Gunga Din of Wall St.") was put up for auction with its furnishings. A Kermanshah rug appraised at $6,000 went for $750, a $6,500 tapestry for $275, the $500,000 house itself...
...State confronted him with this boast, last week warned that if he did not kick in $25,200 it would repeat last month's Whiddon confiscation-in which 20 Whiddon Cash Stores, owing $43,000 in back chain-store taxes, were seized by the State and sold at auction...
...money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State. Why the Nazis went to this length was not apparent, since...
...ship was one he had bought for $900 at an auction six years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...