Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football team. During this period the nickname "Mike" was applied to him for some reason now forgotten. Later, his various directorates and the importance of his activities in law and the railroad business did not interfere with his more ardent interests. He became famous as one of the best auction-bridge players in the world, gave his name to a convention of bidding (TIME, Sept. 30), and is largely responsible for the present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes became practical he had the most elaborate...
...Barnes started the work 50 years ago by chasing butterflies in the Rockies on his vacations. Soon his hobby became famed. Friends, collectors, strangers sent him specimens. At an auction sale in a French town, he bought the collection of Dr. Oberthur, French scientist, discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find...
Ponies. To finance their U. S. visit, the four brother-poloists Ashton of Australia (TIME, Aug. 18) last week sold 25 of their ponies in less than one hour at auction in East Williston, L. I. Total receipts: $77,600. High price...
...Washington, were distributed among the recruits. After the War the borrowed "eyes" were returned to their owners-all but 697 pairs of binoculars, 295 telescopes, nine sextants, whose owners the Navy has yet to locate after twelve years of correspondence. Last week the Navy Department announced its intention to auction off all unclaimed instruments, asked for sealed bids...
...Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which any of the other brothers put through. They hasten to add that once the Dreyfus collection arrives in the U. S. it will not be put up for auction. "Duveen Brothers," a manager explained solemnly last week, "has its important private customers...