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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson has been beating fast as the day of her political demise approaches. On Thanksgiving Day she pardoned 40 convicts; gave six furloughs, three paroles, two restorations of citizenship. During the 21 months of her governorship, Mrs. Ferguson has issued 2,645 clemency proclamations-a record for Texas...
...games by bigger margins than Michigan. They forget that Michigan (beaten by the Navy) had the harder schedule. Chicago, Iowa and Indiana went through the season without winning a single Conference game. Brown played three games with the same eleven men. The Army-Navy game (above) set a new record for attendance. New York University had the best team in its history, a team that might even be called "championship" if it had not lost to Nebraska. Lafayette, fast and adroit, was not beaten by any of the teams on its not-too-formidable list. The Navy...
Again the record price for one of the 1,100 New York Stock Exchange seats has risen-from the recent price of $160,000 (TIME, Nov. 22) to $170,000. As soon as, William J. McCall sold his seat to Howard Wasserman for that sum, $175,000 was offered without attracting sellers...
...second day was the one of thrills. Then it was that some score of master canvases, mainly from the expensive 18th Century so favored by Maecenas Huntington, were sold. And chief among these was Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie," which brought the record auction price to date, $370,000. "Pinkie" is regarded as Lawrence's best work in his early debonair manner, that manner of captivating, almost too facile grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than...
...sale (also to Sir Joseph) was a Gains borough portrait, "Miss Tatton," $231,000, for 30 x 25 inches of Gainsborough's best-Gainsborough who alone of the 18th Cen tury British school put into his work some degree of the character behind the face. There is on record a conversation between Thomas Gainsborough and his Majesty, George...