Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syndicate to grant "credits" to the French Government provided the U. S. Government did not object. Counselor Robert Lansing of the State Department, after an interview with President Wilson, notified representatives of Morgan & Co. and the National City Bank that while the U. S. would object to the sale of foreign war bonds to the public, it would neither approve nor disapprove "credits" made directly to belligerents to facilitate purchases in the U. S. First intimation of scandal in last week's hearing was that this change of U. S. policy had been concealed from the public. The Morgan...
...popular imagination of the world," cried Sir Philip from his padded seat, "there is no doubt that Zaharoff is regarded as a very sinister figure walking through the courts of Europe as agent for the sale of munitions. . . . Was he not your general agent...
Only troubles with this advertisement were that no arms were being exhibited for sale at the Old Manchu Arsenal, and that there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking...
Fremstad was not forced by financial needs to offer her costumes for sale last week. She seemed loathe to break her collection even for the Museum of the City of New York or the Metropolitan Opera, both avid for her famed Isolde costume. Most passe singers are more pathetic than impressive. But Fremstad defied pity when she stood among her relics. She wears pince-nez now. Her greying hair is piled high on her head. But the grand manner was still hers when a reporter queried her about the Elsa mantle, asked its age. Her eyes snapped then as they...
These names, and millions more, are for sale by Boyd's City Dispatch, which last week, in the 105th year of its existence, decided to incorporate. Said President Edgar J. Williams, 72, who has been Boyd's owner & manager since 1900, "It's a dangerous thing nowadays not to be incorporated." Boyd's City Dispatch was founded in Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within...