Word: sold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York Evening Post. Like Ishbel's eyes, the articles sparkled yet were thoughtful. They answered the question: "What does Ishbel MacDonald think about...
...selling smuggled diamonds" two Moscow jewelers met death. (The American Jewelers Association estimates that 50% of the diamonds sold in the U. S. have been smuggled...
...public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, was making money. Eight years later his holdings were estimated at $10,000,000 and he sold to Eastern buyers. Immediately he started another chain of utilities which in 1927 was appraised at $25,000,000 and which again Mr. Foshay sold to the East. His last chain of public utilities, operated in twelve states and five countries (Canada, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, U. S.), included as subsidiaries...
Although the Foshay failure last week closely coincided with the Stock Market crisis it was not born of it. No Foshay enterprises were financed except by Foshay securities which were sold to employes or businessmen in districts which Foshay companies served. Causes of the Foshay failure seemed to be overexpansion and the depreciation of real estate holdings. The failure was chiefly remarkable for two things: it was the largest in the history of the Northwest; the man who failed had thrice made a fortune and might make a fourth...
Sued for Divorce. Alexander Suhkov, Russian émigré, by Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Cologne, Germany. Grounds: nonsupport. Fortnight ago she sold all her private property for about $180,000, moved to a cheap boarding house near Bonn. She offered to pay Suhkov 10,000 marks ($2,400) for the return of her letters, he having already embarrassed her by writing his amorous memoirs and dedicating them with a sly flourish to her brother, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm...