Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life-General Sir George Higginson (1916). * A fall of gathered material...
...Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged to the repayment of the foreign loans. The kingpin was Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, the Inspector General of Customs, under whom 1,000 foreign customs clerks have worked since his appointment in 1911. Last week Chang dismissed Sir Francis, threatened to replace him and all his foreign clerks with Chinese. If this is done, and "gotten away with," the customs revenues...
...merchants and connoisseurs fought for it at auction at the American Art Galleries, Manhattan. Somebody began the bidding at $50,000. Competitors nodded their heads. Each nod sent the price up another $10,000. Near the end, nods were only worth $1,000 apiece. Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and art authority, as might well be guessed, nodded last. "Titus in an Armchair" became his for $270,000, the highest price ever paid for a painting at a U. S. auction...
Again a U. S. merchant has snatched from the hands of Europeans a painting steeped in old world tradition. Jacob Epstein, onetime peddler, now potent Baltimore merchant, bought last week from Knoedler & Co. of Manhattan for $250,000 Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Rinaldo and Armida," just at the moment when British art lovers were raising a smaller sum to bring the painting to the British National Gallery...
Died. General Sir George W. A. Higginson, 100, famed "Father of the Grenadier Guards" (see p. 14) ; at Marlow-on-Thames, England...