Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in Mr. Williams' North American Co. As Mr. Williams was one of the members of last week's purchasing group, he will presumably get back his Central States shares and Mr. Odium will be pretty well out of North American. But chief reason for sale of Blue Ridge was the large profit returned on the investment. Lehman Bros. The banking house of Lehman Bros, dates from 1850, when Brothers Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, emigrating from Germany, started a cotton commission business in Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved...
...last meeting of the Union Committee, Kendric N. Marshall, secretary of the Union, and assistant in Government, named Richard P. Hedblom chairman of the dance committee. The other members are; R. Bennett Forbes, in charge of the sale of tickets; Charles A. Moyer and Hugh MacNeil, for decorations, and Clifford W. Wilson and Charles D. Dyer, 3d for music...
Moving swiftly. Governor Johnston set up a new Commission, dispatched Guardsmen to seize $1,871,352 of highway funds in three Columbia banks, announced he would have his promised $3 tags on sale within a fortnight. Also wasting no time, ousted Commissioner Sawyer & friends sped to the Chief Justice of South Carolina's Supreme Court, got an injunction forbidding the Johnston Commission to disburse highway funds. Banks promptly refused to honor the new Commission's vouchers. In this stalemate bewildered motorists reached the deadline for buying 1936 licenses, got high-priced tags or went without.* Those who waited...
...extent of displaying and offering for sale the cards ... the defendant is engaged in mercantile business. . . . Does a shopkeeper . . . owe no duty to a customer to sell honest goods because, forsooth-Trinity argues-'a stranger, a licensee, of his own free will' comes into the open store ... to buy a can of baked beans labeled . . . Genuine Boston Baked Beans, pays 10? for it, takes it home, and, on opening, finds it to be spoiled stewed prunes-has he no right to recover the price paid under a false label...
...down 57th Street, the recently established Bignou Galleries also had on view a Monet, several Cézannes and, as No. 1 headliner, a picture listed as among the seven greatest canvases by Edouard Manet, Le Linge ("Rinsing the Wash"). Just imported to the U. S., it was for sale for more than...