Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat of Jefferson County is Louisville (pop. 1,650) which was the capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1805. In the centre of the town's old-fashioned Common still stands the roofed block on which until 70 years ago slaves were sold at auction. Above the block hangs the bell that summoned buyers and sellers of black flesh from the surrounding countryside. Last week, for the first time in years, proud little Louisville (pronounced Lewisville) found itself in the bright beam of national news...
...hand to participate in the auction of her relics last week were Mrs. Edward H. Manville, Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler, Mrs. John North Willys, Actor David Warfield, many another great name. Present, too, was Muriel McCormick Hubbard to buy as many of her late mother's belongings as she could afford. She spent $60,000 and got, among other things...
...Chicago, at her greystone Lake Shore Drive palace and in Lake Forest, Ill. at her country home, Villa Turicum, the rest of Mrs. McCormick's private belongings were to go on sale next week. Auction gapers in Chicago were discouraged by a $10 admission fee, redeemable on the first purchase...
...Star Spangled Banner manuscript was not included in the great collection of paintings which, with his house, Mr. Walters left to the city of Baltimore upon his death in 1931. Instead, as part of his private estate it was sent to New York for sale at public auction. When the news was broken to Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, a Colonial Dame, she issued a ringing pronouncement which ended...
Prior to the Manhattan auction, a paper manufacturer named Louis Schulman borrowed $5,000 to put to his own $10,000 to buy the manuscript and present it to President Roosevelt. Henry Jacques Gaisman, board chairman of Gillette Safety Razor, was willing to go to $7,500 to present it "to the American people." Before he could finish his speech bids went to $24,000 and the manuscript was sold to the ubiquitous Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach who calmed patriots by announcing that for a "small profit" he was acting on behalf of the trustees of the Walters Gallery...