Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state that the purchasers of the books were, like the late Lord Leverhulme, merely on the lookout for pictures with which to nourish their childish minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
Catholic Financing. Bonds of the $5,000,000 Bavarian diocesan loan were offered the U. S. public last week. These bonds are against the General Union of the Eight Bavarian Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church. Net proceeds of the sale will be loaned as needed to the Bavarian dioceses against first mortgages on Church property or against approved collateral of equal value. This financing is considered an innovation in Catholic Church affairs...
...would ask the holders of the mortgage to continue his lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
Returning from business at five-thirty yesterday afternoon, my road leading me by the Lampoon Building. I was surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
Upon reaching my home in Water town I immediately got in touch with Mr. Whedon, President of the paper until its dissolution, and members of the Graduate Advisory Committee. I was deeply chagrined at their confirming the fact that the Lampoon building was for sale, and that the famous organization had issued its last publication...