Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge heart is the endeavor of the Clarke School for the Deaf, where Grace Goodhue used to teach, to raise a $2,000,000 endowment (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, some $400,000 was still unsubscribed. The President authorized the Goodspeed Book Shop of Boston to put on public sale copies of the Calvin Coolidge book plate, at $5 each, all proceeds to go to the Clarke fund. The book plate, a postcard-size woodcut by Timothy Cole, pictures the Plymouth, Vt., birthplace nestling among trees, two expectant white collies on the grass, a ready fishing pole against a maple...
...Court Auctioneer is likewise in a position where graft can be a sore temptation. By forced sale he turns possessions into cash. He may conspire with a few choice buyers to undersell assets to them at a bountiful profit which they graciously and secretly split with him. He may rig his auction books to show low sale prices, pocketing money that should go to creditors...
Price. The last sale prior to the increase in seats was for $625,000. Since the price of a seat will be lowered by the addition of 275 new seats, the $625,000 figure cannot be accepted as standard. The value of the new seats depends (as the value of the old seats depended) on what the buyer is willing to give and what the seller is willing to take. The only price regulation made by the governing board was that bids must be made in multiples...
...Capt. Hahn took his wife and her picture to Kansas City. The Kansas City art museum favored the reputed Leonardo. A sale seemed likely. The price, of course, would be in six figures. The news spread to the correct corridors of Manhattan art dealers...
...else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows it. He has had competitors who have found that he uses the tactics of condemning a picture or a work of art offered for sale by a rival. He is the man who is going to sell all the old paintings...