Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This storm in the session was aroused by the oil graft scandal (TiME, March 3), which was itself engendered by the sale of inferior benzine and gasoline to the Government at superior price...
...group of these men are seeking to organize a national professional association of science historians. The immediate occasion for this move is the precarious financial condition of Isis, an international magazine specializing in the history of science, edited for several years past by Dr. George Sarton. The sale for such a magazine is, of course, limited; Isis is in danger of having to discontinue. The aim is to make it the official journal of the new society and send it free to members on payment of $5 dues. The proposed organization will provide a meeting-ground for scientists, historians, philosophers...
June 24 and Aida correspond with the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan. If the delegates do not attend Aida en masse, music lovers may suspect them of being "fit for treasons, spoils and stratagems." There will be 12,000 choice seats for sale at $1, considerably less than a politician need pay for an evening's entertainment elsewhere in Manhattan...
Questioned by a CRIMSON reporter regarding the reported sale of Nolen's, an instructor who requested that his name be withheld from publication denied that the famous tutoring school had changed hands. "There have been so many rumors regarding the proposed disposition of the school, that it might be well to state the case correctly in the CRIMSON since no Boston paper has printed an accurate account...
...Nolen's will, he stipulated that the school should be offered for sale to the present instructors. The value that he placed upon it was outside of all proportions we were willing topay, for we maintain that the only assets in the school are books and furniture, and that the good-will the legatec seeks to capitalize is something we instructors have shared with Mr. Nolen in founding. "We have offered a sum we consider commensurate with the value of the tangible assets, but it has been rejected...