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Everette Bagby Harris, (April 18, 1913 - December 24, 1993) [1] was an American businessman. Harris served as President of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1953 to 1978. During this time, he oversaw the diversification of the products traded on the exchange.
In 1968, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers held its first auction with gross proceeds in excess of CA$1 million, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [4]: 39 Edmonton was also the site of the company's first permanent auction site (on company-owned land), which was established in 1976. Until then, Ritchie Bros. had been conducting its auctions on leased land.
Bid4Assets has conducted tax sales via online auction for more than half of the counties in Washington. In October, 2010, Bid4Assets hosted one of the largest online real estate auctions in the history of the United States in which over 13,000 properties located in Wayne County, Michigan, were auctioned due to unpaid real estate taxes. [11]
Harris desperately tried to sell the books himself but lamented that "no Body [sic] wants them." [15] Harris's farm was sold for $3000 and the proceeds paid to Grandin. [16] In 1999, a copy of Grandin's first edition of the Book of Mormon sold for $58,000; in 2000 another copy was sold for $44,000; and in 2007 a copy was sold at auction for ...
Harris spent an additional $575,000 to run a 90-second ad on the outside of the Las Vegas Sphere ahead of a rally she hosted before Election Day, according to campaign finance reports. The ...
The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift. By 1964, the company was the largest auction house in America, [1] with 115 employees and total sales of $11 million ($108 million in 2023). That year, Sotheby's purchased a ...
Brown Harris Stevens saw 17 of its agents indicted. The company acknowledged that it failed to properly supervise the managers and made more than $1 million in restitution payments. [16] The company was the exclusive sales agent for the sale of the cooperative apartment owned by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in early 1995.
The Washington Examiner reported last week, citing Federal Election Commission filings, that the Harris campaign made a pair of $500,000 payments to Winfrey’s media company, Harpo Productions ...