Word: auction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Girl with Flowers in Her Hat went for $64,000, Van Gogh's The Thistles for $47,000, Fragonard's The Girl with the Dogs for $30,000. The prize piece: Cézanne's simple still life, Apples and Biscuits. When the auctioneer finally banged down his hammer, a French leadmine millionaire wrote out a check for 33 million francs ($94,281), the highest auction price ever paid for a Cézanne...
...smashing" victory, said a triumphant Robert Taft in Washington next day. Illinois' Congressman Les Arends joyfully clapped back on Taft's head an old Taft campaign hat which Arends had bought at a G.O.P. fund-raising auction the week before. Taft added up the Illinois results for reporters with the enthusiasm of an electric calculator ticking off a problem in square root. "It is no easy task to defeat a popular wartime general in successive elections [i.e., Nebraska and Illinois]. In the fourth largest state of the Union I have carried the state by a smashing margin...
...years since its founding, Illinois' tiny (239 miles) Toledo, Peoria & Western has made lots of news, most of it bad. Long known by such names as the "Tired, Poor & Weary," the T.P. & W. was twice thrown into receivership, three times sold at auction, and has to its debit one of the nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast...
...describing his trip to the New World; Captain John Smith's history of Virginia and Massachusetts; and John Eliot's 1663 translation of the Bible into the Algonquian Indian language. Finally, Parke-Bernet announced that it would be delighted to sell the collection. It should bring, at auction, from...
...year ago Pequot's directors reluctantly decided to sell some of the books. They asked Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction galleries for an appraisal. The expert who came to look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town...