Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...picture?" asks he dramatically. "Is it $50, or $5,000? I don't know. . . . The important thing is that John Marin has got to live. The butcher has got to be paid. The record price for a Marin last year was $6,500. On the other hand I let a working girl have one, a good one too, who could only afford $100. I want to know who the buyer is, what he can afford to pay and where he lives, for the home a picture is going to is important. You know if I put a label...
...margin by which production has exceeded consumption lately. In announcing the agreement, careful mention was made of the facts: 1) that the producers are doing this voluntarily, 2) that the agreement lasts only so long as present economic conditions prevail, 3) that no reduction of stocks of copper on hand is included in the plan. In emphasizing the voluntary and temporary nature of the agreement, it was apparent that the coppermen fear the U. S. Government's attitude. The most recent test of anti-trust laws applied to such co-operation was last year when Attorney General Mitchell warned...
...copper from 9½? to 10? to 11? to 12? came as welcome news to a market weary of bearish developments. This move was of course technically independent of last week's Manhattan meeting, but undoubtedly the coppermen talked informally of price. With tremendous stocks of copper on hand and little prospect of an immediate reduction in them, the new price has yet to meet a real test. But apparently depression and copper chaos have deprived the copper tycoons of none of their willingness to take big chances for big stakes...
When Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta marched off the eleventh green at Merion Cricket Club with the world's four major golf titles safely in hand (TiME, Oct. 6) it was generally understood that he would continue competitive golf. He stated that he would not retire. Last week he announced: He is definitely out of tournament golf; will continue his career as an Atlanta barrister; will presently make a series of one-reel cinemas for Warner Bros., "purely educational in character." Excerpts...
...Author. Axel Munthe, 72, one-time cynically fashionable doctor, confidant (he sometimes extricated himself from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...