Word: bidder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...malfeasance in office. Also indicted was Bertram L. Succop, onetime director of the city's Department of Supplies, whom Mayor Kline dismissed as soon as the present investigation into municipal food- buying loomed. A grand jury found that food contracts had not been let to the lowest responsible bidder, that contracts had been given to firms under fictitious names, that contemplated purchases of over $500 had not been advertised as required by law, that purchases had been made without municipal authorization. The reflection was that Mayor Kline had been grafting. Commented he: "The charges are only technical...
While the throne-giver hung her head. Auctioneer Gandhi worked up the bids of those present to $1,500 for both throne & footstool. Cash was paid by the successful bidder on the spot. Beaming, St. Gandhi turned over the cash as a contribution to the coffers of his Nationalist Party...
...undertaking the job for the Government. Therefore a group of potent Western contractors got together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other materials and machinery which will run the final bill for the dam and power plants up to $165,000,000. Under $5,000,000 bond, Six Companies must finish...
...mail contract. Assistant Postmaster General Glover would say only that the advertisement had to be revised, and unnamed "ambiguities" straightened out. But Representative Joseph W. Byrns opined it was because the Post Office had neither the authority to establish such a line, nor the money to pay the successful bidder...
...What am I bid for the entire property?" asked Special Master Lundahl. "Twenty-three million dollars," said Bidder Moffat...