Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
...Prime Minister King and Secretary Hull each looked as if he had swallowed a canary as each tried to keep from appearing too pleased when the other was around. For each thought he had got the better of the bargain, and each had reason for thinking so. Mr. King could say with truth that his concessions had amounted to little but a reduction of Canadian tariffs to the level they were...
...slightly more liberal Constitution of 1923. There was only a little outward grumbling when Britain poured a vast arsenal of planes and troops into Egypt last month (TIME, Nov. 4). What happened last week was that the Egyptian Nationalists of the overwhelming majority Wafd* Party saw its chance to bargain with the British Empire for greater freedom...
Most Italian reporters seem to fit into the bargain the Dictator offers them: "You eulogize my Dictatorship and I protect your jobs." As to foreign correspondents, the longer they remain in Rome the more they lose their impartiality. Some turn sour and smuggle out whatever they can smell against Fascism. Others settle down sweetly to write as if on the staff of a supereditor who happens to be directing not only all the newsorgans of Italy but all Italy...
...question of affiliation will be brought up again at the Guild's next annual convention. Meanwhile the organization was preparing to bargain collectively with the Associated Press, which put its New York office back on a six-day week...