Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DaVinci, "La Belle Ferroniere." Naturally a "La Belle Ferroniere" was soon forthcoming and the person who conjured it was not Sir Joseph Duveen, although he likes to be a major party in all big deals where the old masters and $500,000 are involved. The sale was about to be consummated, certificates of authenticity, vouchers, expert testimonies and all attached to the work, when Sir Joseph gave out an interview denouncing the picture as a "copy. . . . The certificates accompanying it are worthless. . . . Leonardo never copies his works...
...eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very few are privately owned-only those which she put on sale in March, 1924, when her doctor told her she was going blind. Like many an American of artistic intelligence, she was far better known in Europe than...
Thirty other stocks reached high levels for the year. A Stock Exchange seat brought a new-record price of $155,000-which was $6,000 higher than the last sale; $5,000 higher than the last record...
...Passed two bills, one making it illegal to buy Federal offices and the other requiring all future officeholders to file affidavits that they have not paid or promised anyone any "consideration" for his influence in procuring their jobs?bills to do away with the sale of postoffice jobs in the South by local politicians. (Bills went to the Senate...
...principles of the Quebec plan, I believe, are sound. The plan, as a result of the Government taking over the sale exclusively of all alcoholic beverages and forbidding the consumption of those beverages upon the premises where sold, does away with the saloon and the private liquor traffic. Furthermore, the plan does not permit the establishment of a Government liquor store in any community which has voted that it does not want such a store...