Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That it was unfortunate soon became apparent. The importance of his mission overcame him and he returned hinting breathlessly that his findings involved "a name that it would be criminal to mention until further investigation." The name of Warren Gamaliel Harding soon leaked out. The Committee was reviewing the sale in 1923 of President Harding's Marion Star for a surprising price. No bonds traceable to Harry Ford Sinclair were discovered in these records, however. Inquisitor Walsh deplored his young colleague's prematurity...
...fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME, Feb. 27) which has intimated that it will license U. S. films for sale in France only upon condition that the U. S. buy a proportionate number of French films for exhibition...
Tickets for this performance will be held especially for members of the University, and will be placed on sale at the Harvard Cooperative Society today...
Later in the week Inquisitor Nye's committee announced that it would examine the papers of the late President Harding, particularly those concerning the sale of his Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah...
Fifty-odd manufacturers are advertising planes for sale. Many of them are still in the experimental stage, but 21 types of airplanes have been officially approved by the Department of Commerce in Washington. Companies barely struggling along last year are this year struggling to catch up on orders...