Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Frederick A. Delano of the National Capital Park & Planning Commission, President Roosevelt's uncle, offered for sale, through the American Civic Association, handkerchiefs 28-in. square whose design, in six colors, is a map of historic Washington & environs. Proceeds will go to the George Washington Memorial Parkway Fund. Price: $1. ¶ Talking with Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso and Commander Nicolo Sananelli of the Italian War Veterans, President Roosevelt revealed that while on a walking tour in Italy in 1860 his father James had entered Naples during a siege, had received from the great Garibaldi himself...
...acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden in France...
When Lawyer Benjamin H. Ludlow, secretary of the Orchestra Association, at last mounted an auctioneer's stand draped with a red sale-today flag, the bidding was prompt and generous. Debutantes went from table to table collecting written pledges. The players whose music was being auctioned lost some of their selfesteem, but the $17,000 which was raised restored half their last pay cut, gave 600 impoverished music students free tickets for the season...
...Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself but to the creditors and stock-holders of Lincoln Motor Co., which Mr. Ford bought at a receiver's sale...
...most willing witness was Wilfred Leland Sr. One night, he testified, Edsel Ford had summoned him for a conference on the Lincoln sale. Son Edsel told him to come by a back road and enter the Ford mansion through a side door. During the conference Mr. Leland confided that he was dickering with Manhattan bankers and Henry Ford thereupon promised to buy the company. But Mr. Ford shrewdly advised Mr. Leland that he "should continue to negotiate, however, and should dress shabbily, go unshaven for two or three days, so as to appear poor and discouraged about the affair...