Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support of Dewey was well known. But he had agreed in open caucus with his Pennsylvania rival, Governor Jim Duff, who was an anti-Dewey and pro-Vandenberg man, to hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys said: "There goes...
...that mean that ECA wanted none of the grain from bulging River Plate elevators? Not exactly, answered Hensel, but Argentina would have to "go out and get the market"-i.e., bargain with the U.S. ECA's terms: 1) no more price-gouging (Eire recently paid $6.85 a bushel for Argentine wheat-July futures at Chicago are now $2.31); 2) no more state trading practices such as have throttled U.S. business firms in Argentina; 3) a pledge that Argentina will underwrite some of the costs of feeding Europe...
...Dewey's job, in the week before the convention, was to make sure the delegates already pledged to him stuck tight to the bargain-and then to beat the bushes for more delegates...
Although Lewis was not in court, Judge Goldsborough let John know what he thought of him. "There is no such thing as a benevolent despot," he said. "It's your boundless audacity, O Catiline."* Then he ordered Lewis, under the Taft-Hartley law, to bargain with all the coal operators before the June 30 contract deadline...
...grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed Inter-American Military Cooperation bill to authorize the U.S. to sell weapons to Latin America at bargain prices...