Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Widow Ella M, Rainey realized $10,000 from the auction of the library of her late husband, Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey. The quill pen with which Woodrow Wilson signed the U. S. Declaration of War against Germany brought...
...Ball, a pale, grey-mustached septuagenarian with a frosty fringe around his bald cranium, told how he and Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson, to whom the late O. P. Van Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica Corp., put up $3,121,000 to buy at auction from J. P. Morgan & Co. collateral that had once secured a $39,500,000 loan to the Van Sweringens (TIME, Dec. 14). He went on to tell a lot more: how $274,000 of their purchase price bought 47% control of Alleghany Corp.; how they promptly gave the Vans irrevocable proxy...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...
...trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard three miles on a tranquil day, but Gust's trees are known to be topnotch...
...which begins with Handel's Sixth Concerto Grosso and a Symphony in D by Clementi, and ends up with three Wagnerian selections. It is interesting to note that the Symphony which was written in the time of Beethoven, was lost for nearly one hundred years, being finally purchased at auction by the Library of Congress. It was subsequently revised by Alfredo Casella...