Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other 38 paintings raised the total price for the evening's auctioning to $1,154,650, the record* for a single sale; most of the paintings brought a little less than they were worth...
Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass...
Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...
...filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were not yet producing the oil that later the Royal Dutch-Shell was to control. First oil of the region was discovered at Sumatra in the late 1880's; the Royal Dutch Co. (the Dutch royal family are important stockholders) was incorporated at The Hague only...
...late Sir Mortimer B. Davis...