Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appropriated $2,500 to buy an oil portrait of Herbert Hoover to hang in the White House...
...colonies in California, Laguna is the artiest. Once a year, Laguna citizens put berets on their heads, hang palettes to the lamp posts along principal streets, welcome thousands of visitors to a ten-day cultural spree...
...Edda Mussolini-Galeazzo Ciano marriage in 1930. At least, before the marriage the Ciano family fortune was small but when the old man died three weeks ago it was estimated one of the greatest in Italy. Before his marriage Galeazzo was another of those golden lads who liked to hang around the Excelsior and Grand Hotels in Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed. He had been a cub reporter and a society journalist who did bits of drama and literary criticism for an obscure Roman sheet. After that his father managed to get him minor posts...
...small, mysterious cartel of French and Dutch art dealers who were suspected of acting for interests in the U. S. Highest price paid (by Editor Alfred M. Frankfurter of the U. S. Art News) was $39,400 for the famous van Gogh Self Portrait which used to hang in the State Gallery at Munich. Manhattan Dealer Pierre Matisse paid $945 for his famed father's Three Women, from the Folk Museum at Essen. Principal acquisitions of the Franco-Dutch cartel were Picasso's Soler Family (1903), from Koln, Two Harlequins (1905), from Wuppertal-Elberfeld...
...which would have taken him to the town museum and to drive straight back to visit his wounded aide in the hospital. As Franz Ferdinand and Sophie again entered their car (see cut, right), he was informed that Chabrinovitch had been collared by police in the dry river bed. "Hang him as soon as you can," he exclaimed bitterly, "or else Vienna will send him a decoration." The procession started back up the quay. Nobody had remembered to tell the chauffeurs about the change of plans. The hour was about...