Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
Farmer Caldwell. Last week Rogers Clark Caldwell commented on the situation his difficulty had started. Undismayed, he said to the St. Louis Star: "Everything happens for the best." He said he plans to auction his famed stables, retire. He explained, "The trouble is that modern business has been bottomed on paper values and they are being swept away." His remedy: "We must get back to fundamentals." He plans to become a farmer...
...personal possessions of Mrs. Charles Victor Bob, wife of the missing Manhattan stockbroker whose financial activities may bring a loss of $12,000,000 to his investors (TIME, Oct. 27, et seq.), were sold at auction, brought $92,000. Mrs. Bob's share of the proceeds, according to lawyers, cannot be attached by Mr. Bob's creditors. Most interesting item in the sale: a volume containing steel engravings and autographs of every U. S. President. Price...
...National bridge tournament sponsored by the American Bridge League; at Cleveland. Contested championships: mixed pair auction, men's & women's pair auction, men's & women's team-of-four auction, contract pair & team-of-four...
Last June, the hall and the land adjoining it on the east were put up at auction and sold to James Thurman, for $161,000. According to Davis, however. Thurman never paid the amount in full and instead has exercised his right of giving the hall back to the trustees...