Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the nation the poignant wail of the debtor beats relentlessly upon political ears. At Logan, Iowa, last week 400 farmers forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey...
...process of forced liquidation through foreclosure and bankruptcy sale of the assets of individual and corporate debtors who, through no fault of their own, are unable in the present emergency to provide for the payment of their debts is utterly destructive of the interests of debtor and creditor alike and if this process is allowed to take its usual course misery will be suffered by thousands without substantial gain to their creditors...
...Galleries. In the mannerly, well dressed crowd fingers snapped and pencils rose actively, and from his pulpit Auctioneer Otto Bernet bounced prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded as if Depression were over...
...caused a store in Monrovia, Calif. to stick this sign in its window: "Pre-Technocracy Clearance Sale...
...curtain raiser before the presentation of "Le Reve," a short feature, "Mont St. Michel," will be shown, and Pierre Brodin will give a short explanatory talk in French. Tickets will be on sale at Robinson Hall Annex on Monday, January 23. Performances will be given both days at 2.15, 4.15, 6.45, and 8.45 o'clock, and tickets will be void five minutes after the beginning of each performance...