Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockholder Henry Boomsma obtained a court order temporarily restraining the California Delta Farms, Inc. from selling $150-an-acre land to Herbert Hoover for $50 an acre, on the ground that such a sale would place Citizen Hoover under an obligation to the directors of California Delta Farms...
...grandmother pawned her gewgaws for gunpowder and tore up her cotton petticoats for bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley...
...auction conducted by an internationally recognized forum like Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, means more than the sale of objects to the highest bidder. It is historically important because it records the ceaseless migrations of works of art. It has immediate significance because it gauges Art's popularity, often gives the public its only chance to see privately owned masterpieces. This week the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries published its summary of the 69 sales it managed this season...
...lack of academic competition in American as contrasted with the prevalence of this stimulating factor in European Universities, is attacked by president-emeritus Lowell in an article appearing in the June issue of the Harvard Teachers Record, which will be put on public sale today...
...Committee, formed to protest the tactics of the police in the demonstration at Charlestown, has been engaged in arranging a formal protest to state officials but results of their work so far have not as yet been revealed. The Committee was impressed with the sale of the pamphlet which appeared a week ago and which has sold rapidly since then...