Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of 65 modern British pictures to go in it. The founder on the inscription on the building, refers to its own gift as "a thank offering for a prosperous business career of 60 years." Sir Joseph Duveen, father of the present bearer of that title, a prominent art dealer, later donated the Turner collection and several extra rooms...
...with its disgusting discharge. Never have conditions during Bicker Week been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even this is only a small manifestation of the rottenness of a system which forces the smaller clubs to adopt such...
...England and Australia, one must first own a license (cost $1) in order to own a radio set. The dealer attunes the receiver to the wave length of the station desired by the purchaser, who can pay an additional dollar for each additional station desired. Will American owners pay for concerts without compulsion...
Through the kindness of Sir Joseph Duveen of London, art collector and son of the well-known Dutch-English art dealer and benefactor, Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, who died in 1908, there is now at the Fogg Art Museum a painting by Titian, which will remain there as a loan for a few days. Professor Arthur Pope of the Fine Arts Department will give a talk on the painting at 3.30 o'clock Monday afternoon...
Last week he offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...