Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago the people of the Confederation of Switzerland voted on a proposal to grant cities and towns local option on the sale of hard liquors-beers and wines not being affected...
...students of literature who take their duties seriously. Will they resort to readeasies and readhouses for glances at the illicit pages of Voltaire? It is doubtful, for although the book, like alcohol, has been banned from entry into the United States, the book, like alcohol is still on sale in Boston...
...which his city is governed. The sins of an administration fail to register, except as dollars and cents out of his pocketbook. Graft of $100,000 was lately uncovered in the County Clerk's office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME, Dec. 24). His murderer still remains unapprehended. Most New Yorkers have heard that...
Loudly intoned by the press, these astonishing appraisals produced country-wide reverberations. The world's auction room record for a painting was a mere $377,000.* The U. S. record was only $360,000.† The record for a private sale was $750,000.** Even this last figure, in the face of the announced appraisals seemed likely to be surpassed...
...persistent rumor described Collector Hamilton as Dealer Duveen's close colleague, the sale as, in reality, a Duveen sale. Collector Hamilton's careful avoidance of reporters and photographers enhanced this rumor...