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This finally ends over seven years of wrangling about the disposition of the building during which time it has been either wholly or partially occupied by University students. Last June the hall and the land adjoining it on the east were put up at auction by the Beck Hall Trust and sold to James Thurman for $161,000. However, Thurman never paid the amount and instead gave the hall back to its former owners. This led Davis in the fall acting for the Trust, to offer to give the building to anyone who would assume the taxes and mortgages amounting...
...Scripps-Howard bid, and to keep the World papers alive. And Publisher William Griffin of the New York Enquirer (a paper so obscure that few are aware it has changed from Sunday to daily) wanted to bid. Surrogate Foley made it clear he would conduct no auction, could only decide whether sale was legal and justified. Obviously touched, he listened solemnly to the plea of the employes, advised them to make their best offer to the Pulitzers directly, reserved decision again, until that night...
...Queen Louise of Prussia, the famed flute of Frederick the Great, a pair of duelling pistols given by Napoleon I to General Kléber, and many another trinket formerly preserved at Klein-Glienicke Castle, Potsdam, Germany by Prince Friedrich Leopold Hohenzollern, cousin of the former Kaiser, went on the auction block. While plebeian agents refrained from bidding, Representatives of Kaiser Wilhelm bought Frederick the Great's gold watch. Prices: watch, $1,190; pistols...
...present Duke of Portland attempted to sell the vase at public auction. Bids stopped at $147,000. His Grace's agents indignantly withdrew it from sale, returned it to the museum...
...American Indian Defense Asso ciation, had erred in informing the Senator. Members of the rival Associations on Indian Affairs showed that no official shared Mr. Hagerman's many duties, that his tribal councils were beginning to pro duce results, that the "deal" was a $1,000 sale at public auction of a lease which geologists had declared practically worth less and which the buyer, one E. S. Munoz, thought so little of that he divided it among his creditors in a poker game be fore (very much later) he sold...