Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although there have been scattered threats of violence among farmers who feel manipulated and want to strike out at someone or something, most of their protest has been a stolid, dignified resistance to farm foreclosures or forced auctions. Some 40 supporters of Ray Parks, 42, gathered in front of the Worth County courthouse in Sylvester, Ga., last week and joined loudly in song to prevent an auctioneer from hearing any bids on the 595-acre spread. To the tune of Home on the Range, they sang, "Oh, give me my farm, and a price that is fair, and a chance...
...When the auction began last Friday, some 150 farmers crowded around the steps of the courthouse in Gove, Kans. (pop. 140). Sheriff Dean Baum began reading off the legal orders under which the personal property of C. David Jensen and his wife Virginia, both 54, would be sold to satisfy an unpaid debt of $180,000 to the Citizens State Bank of nearby Grainfield. Someone threw snowballs at one of the sheriff's deputies, and someone else shouted at the assembled officials: "Why don't you go out and steal them?" That was a reference to the two cars, three...
...auction House members sold some 53 goods and services, ranging from 24 hours of slavery to a Bermuda Rum Fizz party to throwing pies iin the faces of six people...
...Deckser '87, who masterminded the auction, said the items were purchased almost entirely by students or by Mayman and other House officials...
Buffo said the idea for the auction came from Currier House, which has run similar fundraisers for more than five years...