Word: auctioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several guest artists. The members take part in every show, while the guest artists are invited for specific exhibitions. On April 21 the prints will be replaced by a showing of pictures suitable for wedding presents, which is run to the end of the season, when a giant auction is planned. The wedding present show will probably include the work of five or six guest artists from various parts of the country. All the artists included have shown several times before and at prices two or three times the Alliance scale...
...special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency...
...auctioning off the track's fixtures and equipment, many a nostalgic fan was on hand. For an hour and a half a red-faced auctioneer knocked down $2,000 worth of chairs, tables, other track paraphernalia. Suddenly he declared a recess. After a long wait he returned to tell the crowd that the auction was off, someone had taken an option on the track...
Last week the remnants of Arthur Neville Chamberlain's worldly possessions went on the auction block at his home in Birmingham. Already distributed to relatives and friends were his umbrella, his fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...
...Climax ad did better than the county's. Only offer soft-voiced County Treasurer Frank Kendrick received when he opened his auction came by mail from George B. Malott, president of an Indianapolis machine works. The bid: $10. promptly rejected. Malott, who makes a hobby of bidding at tax sales ("to help out local units of government, and, naturally, to make, a little change for myself"), had not known that Colorado law demanded a bid equal at least to the amount of delinquent taxes...