Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Editor Baker's fight with the Canawacta Water Supply Co. reached an extraordinary crisis. The water company had started suits against 200 of its customers to make them pay their bills. The customers had refused and their property was put up at auction. First piece under the hammer was none other than the Susquehanna Evening Transcript, which had balked at a water bill of $22.70. Biggest crowd that ever attended a Susquehanna auction gathered in the Transcript editorial room, hissed water company agents sent to bid prices high enough to satisfy their employers' claims...
...sociological hay is when, the economic sun is not shining. But four years of hard times did not soften the U. S. industrial order, which had gone its untrammeled way for generations. Given a program, given the political power to legalize it, it nevertheless took a dynamic personality to hammer the mold of "in- dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such a man had to possess an enormous amount of physical energy. He had to have gusto. He had to be a phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda...
...another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor...
...towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw gruffly told newshawks: "I wanted it kept mum, because I'm not much of a hero. I'm a very modest...
Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...