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...Bidder-Upper Kent...
...McLellan behaved in the foundering of his company. In Mr. Leavitt's welter of metaphors drawn from King Solomon, medicine and the sea it was never quite clear just how Mr. McLellan did behave, but one thing was certain: Founder McLellan was supporting the principal bidder for the property. Indirectly the bidder was George Keenan Morrow, who with Gold Dust Corp., United Cigar Stores and his Brother Frederick, comprise the "Morrow interests." There was never any doubt that the Morrows intended to add another turret to their merchandising castle, for their proposal included a plan whereby they would ultimately...
...combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which...
...longer paid in as big royalties as before (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). Seething with hate of "the British dogs," Persia's Press, which always exactly mirrors His Majesty's views, called for the auctioning off forthwith of "the Persian heritage of oil" to the highest foreign bidder...
...auction conducted by an internationally recognized forum like Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, means more than the sale of objects to the highest bidder. It is historically important because it records the ceaseless migrations of works of art. It has immediate significance because it gauges Art's popularity, often gives the public its only chance to see privately owned masterpieces. This week the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries published its summary of the 69 sales it managed this season...