Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once his country's Minister at Washington (1922-30), purposeful, air-minded President Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera surprised his countrymen by issuing without warning last week two decrees: the first prohibits from July 1 "the sale of alcoholic beverages, except beer, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays;" the second strikes directly at the old Colombian custom of gun-toting, drastically restricts imports of firearms, stiffens the requirements for licenses to carry them...
...pictures hanging last week on the fence palings, the artists gloating over them, were a telescoped tour of nowadays Greenwich Village. Present were the professional eccentrics, mysteriously perennial, offering for sale pictures of pop-eyed Frankensteins coming out of green mists after white-robed young ladies at confirmation class. Present too were the unconscious eccentrics, formidably sincere and industrious, with their paintings of "The Spirit of St. Louis" flying upside down over one smeared yellow wave. Present were all the photograph retouchers, family sketchers and advertising artists out of work, anybody with a couple of pictures and the nerve...
...counsel, passed a resolution asking the Swedish authorities to demand a cash settlement from Kreuger's U. S. bankers before a re-organization of either Kreuger & Toll or International Match. The committee continued to hint it would sue the U. S. bankers for misrepresentation, ask them to rescind the sale of Kreuger & Toll bonds. In Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match was still sound were dismayed last week when the company was granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk...
...Senior Album of the Class of 1932 will go on sale on Friday, it was announced yesterday by R. N. Clark, Jr. '32, Chairman of the Senior Album Committee. The year-book, the forty-third to be published by a Harvard Senior Class, will contain several new features...
...Album will be on sale daily at Phillips Brooks House from 10 to 1 o'clock beginning Friday. Seniors who have already subscribed may receive their copies then, and copies may be purchased at a price of $10 each. The Album will be mailed to any address for an additional charge of 75 cents to cover cost of packing and shipping...