Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originated in Iowa, that technique last week was fast spreading to the rest of the country. Throughout the Midwest auction after auction was held at which a debtor's friends bid in his property for a few cents and then returned it to him while the creditor was being restrained, forcibly or otherwise, from participating in the sale. At Deshler, Ohio, a $400 debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner...
Dealers were not quite so impressed with the prices. The pictures, mostly authenticated French and British 17th and 18th Century canvases with long auction records, were part of the estate of Alfred Henry Mulliken of Chicago, a dealer's delight who paid $75,000 for the Lawrence that fetched $17,100 at the auction. The whole collection cost him well over a million...
...Daughter (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is distinguishable from most Chinatown pictures by 1) a curiously assorted cast and 2) an unhappy ending. In San Francisco, representatives of a Chinese revolutionist have pledged themselves to send him $100,000. To do this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named...
...country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold...
With the possible exception of old Bourbon whiskey, the most important things in the lives of Kentuckians are the Derby in May and the tobacco auctions in December. Last year, because Kentucky's famed burley tobacco began to sell as low as $4.61 per 100 Ib. (about one-half 1930 levels), the growers at one of the auctions muttered curses, shouted threats, then took to pelting the manager of the "floor" (warehouse) with apples, broke up the auction in a general riot. Several other auctions had to be postponed. Last week Kentucky growers were jubilant. In addition...