Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau tried to buy an automobile in Paris, but an automotive sales manager insisted on giving him one. "France owes you too much. Let me pay my part of the debt," said the sales manager. M. Clemenceau accepted the automobile and sent a check for 10,000 francs ($400) to the factory where it was made, to be distributed among the most needy workmen...
...Montana Power Co. shares have gone up and down queerly. Since January 1 their quotations have ranged between $102.25 and $169.50. Last week, trading in the stock became steady at $165.50 a share; and pat upon that situation, Mr. Ryan who theretofore had always smiled mockingly at offers to buy the company, let it be known that he and other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their Montana Power shares for two shares of a new issue which the American...
Eddie Collins hides a heart of gold under a curt manner. He won't allow his young wife to continue as typist, because silently he remembers his work-ridden mother. Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains...
Artists, especially U. S. artists, more especially U. S. artists with radical theories, are often heard to whine and mumble because men with money, i. e., art patrons, prefer to buy the works of "old masters." These whining, muttering artists are to some extent justified. But what must have been their surprise, their delight mixed with dismay, to learn, last week, that an anonymous art patron, i. e., a man with money, had spent $41,000 for 32 of the works of John Sloan, famed extant U. S. painter, president of the ultra-radical Society of Independent Artists...
...whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price to $580,375. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had his dealers buy Corot's Nymph Bathing...