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...small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan's John Levy Galleries for $16,000-highest price for any French work. A Greuze self-portrait brought $14,000, a small Watteau, $9,400; a painting of the entrance to Rouen's Cathedral by Monet...
...past three months William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President, traveled 17,000 mi., addressed 70 meetings, was expelled from Zeigler, Ill., arrested in Los Angeles, Scranton, Lawrence, Mass. With 34 more speaking dates in 13 states to go, harried Candidate Foster last week collapsed in Chicago with an attack of angina pectoris. His doctor said, "It would be absolute suicide for him to continue his tour." Few days later, recuperating in his Bronx home, Candidate Foster wryly reminded reporters of a noteworthy fact: "Today I bear the unique distinction of being the only candidate supporting payment of the Bonus...
Died. Joseph Leiter, 63, capitalist, sportsman, famed wheat speculator; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of the late Tycoon Levi Zeigler Leiter (cofounder of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.), at 29 he blazed upon the financial skies when, with $1,000,000 given him by his father as a graduation present, he cornered the wheat market, only to lose everything- including a paper profit of some $7,000,000 and $12,000,000 of his father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk...
...Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago...
...years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby-kissers. And all the time they are busy spending where it will do the most political good the income from millions left to Lady Mosley by her grandfather, the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Last week Sir Oswald saw and fairly snapped up a chance to seize leadership of the disaffected, "pure Socialist" left wing of the Labor Party...