Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...table, emerged in 1914 with a law degree and letters in football, baseball and basketball. After World War I, in which he rose from private to lieutenant, he went back to his law office and began the long haul up through the Illinois political machine. Making his first bid for the Senate in 1938, he had to buck Chicago's high-riding Kelly-Nash machine to win the nomination. When he came up for re-elec tion in 1944 he had so won over the old Boss that syntax-wrecking Ed Kelly nominated him for the vice-presidency...
...Gimo had all but yielded to repeated pleas for his resignation and a peace bid to the Communists. How could Chiang Kai-shek hold out when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung-hsi, had wired him to step aside? Even his sworn brother, ex-Premier Chang Chun, had urged him to "retire into the clouds" and let others less disagreeable to the enemy make overtures for peace. Vice President Li Tsung-jen was ready to propose a cease-fire and immediate peace talks...
...Egypt's armed forces, members of the diplomatic corps wearing bright tarbooshes and sashes, and notable sheiks in brocaded turbans and gowns glistening with gold and silver. Last of all came the vengeful members of Nokrashy's Saadist Party, carrying their leaders on their shoulders. "Dam-Bid-Dam" (blood for blood), they shouted, in rhythm with the drums...
What terms would Nationalist China accept? Chen Li-fu glumly summed up last week: "One of three avenues must open before peace can be explored: the government must make a bid-it hasn't yet formally discussed the possibility. The Communists must make a bid-why should they when they're winning? Failing one of these, a third party must offer mediation-what chance is there of such an offer? And yet our situation is very critical...
...Salaries. Unable to agree on drafting players, the two leagues were knocking each other out in bidding for college football stars. The average salary had been bid up from $4,000 to $8,000 for a four-month playing season. There were just not enough pro football fans to support three Chicago teams or three New York teams. (New York was about to get a fourth-the National League's Boston Yanks, moving to the big city because attendance in Boston fell as low as 6,800.) And the two leagues had steadfastly failed to get together even...