Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palestine, ruling that the domestic supply is sufficient for religious use. Most significant of all, the Sen ate Judiciary Committee voted to conduct a public hearing. The first witness will be the same learned William Cabell Bruce. It is likely he will present the case for the "Canadian system" -sale and control of liquor by the government...
Last week the Ferargil Galleries offered for sale a statuet of Venus which has been kept obscure for many years in the gallery of a Manhattan collector. It is the work, experts say, of Praxiteles*-a figure twelve inches high representing the goddess rising from a broken wave. The arms, beautifully modeled, are intact; the legs are gone below the thighs; the lovely, epicene face is turned toward the shoulder. Was Phryne the model? Was the pose inspired by the famous painting by Appeles? All that is known is that a peasant dug it up in a brown field near...
...born at Twickenham, England, haunt of Poet Alexander Pope. For decades he squandered huge sums extracted from various titled persons or realized from the sale of his estates. He attempted to enlist in the French army during the War but was refused. Under French law "the privilege of defending the Republic is denied to the sons of families that have reigned over France...
...piling up of inventories. They have accumulated despite the opening of the spring seasons. Several automotive makers have already quietly cut production. In this last field the easy credit terms of last year may in part be blamed. This year a huge accumulation of used cars competes with the sale of new. More cheerful is the steel situation, with production near 96% of capacity...
...sale of the American Mercury was prohibited on Monday by the action of the Reverend J. Frank Chase of the Boston Watch and Ward Society. Felix was arrested on Tuesday by Cambridge police on a charge of being in possession of books and pamplets of an improper nature. More specifically, he was accused of displaying in his window as for sale copies of the American Mercury. Agents of the Watch and Ward Society seized 18 copies of the magazine, for which he has not been paid...