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...represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear "Home on the Range" and "My Wild Irish Rose" 3) At an auction at the Union Art Galleries, Manhattan, a clothbound first edition of Treasure Island, bearing the bookplate of Eugene Field, was knocked down to the President for $90, on a bid submitted by mail...
...idealistic chief, "General" Farley's resurrection of the air industry's prostrate form was eyed intently not only by injured operators but by vigilant citizens and patriots. The industry's face was certainly altered and one thing noticed, when "General" Farley announced his new contract auction, was that bids were to be opened and announced, not immediately upon receipt, as is customary, but 192 hours after receipt. Another thing: the southern transcontinental route was not included. This circumstance served to underscore a fact bigger than all: of the four major companies that had held old contracts, only...
...property of Larry Fay. loose milk and taxi racketeer who was later murdered. After riding in it for a time. Racketeer Fay presented King Alfred's Excelsior to his old friend Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. who swanked about in it until her death five months ago. To the auction block went the armored Excelsior together with a diamond-studded vanity case, a number of floor lamps and a half-dozen polo mallets. The car brought $80 from a dealer who had an idea that sooner or later he could find...
...refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold they no longer represented a fair value. From Moscow last week went a new offer. Russia would accept the present Japanese bids provided Japan will reopen the entire matter before next year's auction. This Minister Hirota refused to do, claiming that 282 of the disputed fishing grounds were already definitely leased until 1936. It was not the money, said Koki Hirota, it was the principle of the thing...
...there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. ... All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster of 1929 [TIME, March 5]." Few anonymous commentators on the political scene have received better advertising out of Washington...