Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich, respected rubber merchant of the firm of Matthes & Bormeester...
...fashions among collectors that, in one evening's bidding at the same sale, 35 pictures by members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price to $580,375. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had his dealers buy Corot's Nymph Bathing...
...meanings, heard both within and without," the New England Council was formed in 1925 at a meeting of businessmen and governors of the six New England states. Last fortnight, this "stimulating and coordinating agency" assembled in Providence, R.I. Its president, John Silsbee Lawrence, 49, Boston dry goods merchant, bank director, member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, pointed with pride to the accomplishments and plans...
...York World featured Merchant Nevin thus: "In conversation he occasionally indulges in polite stories...
...Their approval shall not be necessary in or to validate any decision or management by Nevin," said Rodman Wanamaker 's $100,000,000 will last week (TIME, Mar. 19). "Their" meant seven managing trustees. "Nevin" was William L. Nevin, lately obscure youthful lawyer, now by inheritance merchant princeling. "Nevin" will henceforth manage, irrespective of benefit of experience of seven advisers...