Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoare is Hora Venit, and last week it seemed indeed that the hour of Sir Samuel and Lady Maud had come. They were still in their big house at No. 18 Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
...called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored connection with spiced meats. Kernel of the campaign was Gobel's offer to donate a part of each sale to some worthy anti-Prohibition organization. Gobel's sausage sales jumped from 21,000 Ib. per week...
...pleasant London of the right, tight little British ruling class is such a small place that what goes on quickly reaches the ears of everyone who matters without benefit of newspapers. There was no need last week to advertise that No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale. Still less need to explain this little fact's large significance. It meant that esteemed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who in his lovable way makes from time to time such disastrous bumbles, had decided to call back into the cabinet "The Man Who Was Right...
...string of friendships in potent "Naval families" necessary to a First Lord, and having once been Secretary of State for Air he can be trusted to put the Admiralty's planes on a par with the world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...
...jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...