Word: sale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events in the commemoration of George Gershwin since his death was an exhibition, at Marie Harriman Gallery, of his own paintings...
...record before us does not sustain the charge of fraud," found the trust that received his pictures was a "valid organization." Dealing with the other disputed transactions one by one, the Board ruled for Mr. Mellon in six of them, against him on three. It found that the sale to Bethlehem Steel Corp. of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Corp., of which he was one of four stockholders, was not a reorganization as he claimed and that his estimated $6,549,000 profits from the deal therefore represented an actual taxable gain. Net result of the Board's decision, although...
Print order for the U. S. Rising Tide, at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., big Chicago printers, jumped last week from 500,000 to 800,000. Already the magazine had been snapped up wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about...
That Banker Fleishhacker's suits are not ended was evident also in another quarter, Los Angeles, where the same group of angry Lazard Freres heirs is suing Banker Fleishhacker. the Anglo Bank and others for $1,250,000 damages from the sale in 1915-17 of the Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never...
Harvard Chess, a new publication edited by Louis R. Chauvenet '41, will join the ranks of undergraduate periodicals today when it goes in sale at the Union today...