Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find Sally tucked up in the feed. A Manhattan playwright, Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor), whose show Caroline is backing, finances Sally's auction bid for Star Gazer, tries to cast her as his leading lady. Jealous, Caroline withdraws her backing. At this point only juvenile or feeble-minded members of the audience will fail to perceive that, if the show is to have a conclusion, Star Gazer must win the $25,000 handicap...
...steps of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., at 10 a. m. sharp last Friday a group of 40 people, including several newshawks, photographers and sidewalk loungers, assembled for an auction. Bespectacled Trust Officer Sylow Berven of Oakland's Central Bank began to read in a low drone from a thick typewritten sheaf of papers. In 15 minutes his audience had dwindled to ten people. An urchin went around begging nickels, got only one. At 10:49 Mr. Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing...
Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...
...European auctioneers are hardened to the sad relics of royalty, but not once in a decade does one preside at an occasion so splendidly sentimental as that which drew a swank crowd of Londoners last week to Sotheby's auction rooms in Bond Street. Cherished by four generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess...
Dropping the sunny mask displayed to its paying guests in winter, the City of Miami last week got down to the unpleasant business of collecting unpaid taxes. It was the duty of Tax Collector J. O. Davis to auction off delinquent lots-"or such part as is necessary"-to satisfy the city's claims. Miami's business recovery was reflected in this year's higher tax rolls ($2,900,000, compared to $2,300,000 last year) and in higher collections (89% as against 85½%). It was also reflected in remarkably eager bidding at the annual...