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...York last week went the lot of them, where Messrs. Hackenbruch, Rosenbaum & Goldschmidt hope to recoup their five millions. As a starter they sold six pieces to the Cleveland Museum of Art, invited Cleveland's museum director plump, polite little William M. Milliken, to lecture on the exhibit's opening day as chief customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Welfenschatz | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Resigned. Allan A. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan from whom he inherited part of a $500,000,000 estate; from a partnership in Noah MacDowell & Co., Manhattan brokers. In 1924, after leaving Yale, he set out to help recoup his father's $5,000,000 losses in Stutz Motors stock manipulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Iron Gustav | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...book, illustrated by the best contemporary artists. This was printed, and the few copies offered to the public were snapped up at 30 guineas ($150) apiece; but the book cost 90 guineas per copy to produce and so Mr. Lawrence went bankrupt. The present edition is to recoup this bankruptcy. The original work, called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is now on sale in a minute U. S. edition at $20,003 a copy;? and the present volume is a very drastic abridgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Welsh Hero* | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Your mannerisms are choking your utterance and soon they will affect your circulation. In this way Bennett killed the Herald and you can kill TIME. Perhaps you aim to, so you may recoup by selling this recipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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