Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week was memorable for Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
...Reputedly the highest previous price paid for a living author's manuscript was $5,300, for Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly at the Quinn Sale in New York...
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...Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church $7,250,000 for 400,000 acres. By last week's deal, Archbishop of Manila regained 32,000 of these acres, plus improvements...