Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tapes tries and brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture, to "raise the prices for paintings in Amsterdam." But he moved from the house of his dealer, van Uylenborch, to a canal-side warehouse where he could paint, on the side, sagging old women, ghetto characters, Biblical allegories...
...married his dealer's cousin, Saskia van Uylenborch, a gentle, kindly girl of excellent family with a dowry of 40,000 guilders (about $16,000). He bought a fine house in the ghetto, still preserved in Amsterdam as the Rembrandt-huis, and decked Saskia in diamonds and pearls. Because Rembrandt's success as a portrait painter was enormous, the Company of Captain Cocq knew of no better man to do their group portrait...
...tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects a grain dealer for an agent...
...Dealer bright green with envy. When the Old Lady nods, the City, London's Wall Street, hops to her bidding-though not always without a deal of well-mannered grumbling...
...sharp, lean, hustling promoter is J. Edward Jones, 41, world's largest dealer in oil royalties. He worked his way through the University of Kansas as a soda jerker, now lives swankily in Scarsdale, N. Y. The intervening years were largely spent in initiating the public into the mysteries of oil royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit...