Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumpled, round-faced Américo Ghioldi, Socialist editor of the lively, clandestine weekly La Vanguardia and brother of Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had dogged him ever since the 1943 revolution. It would also assure him a big pulpit for his trenchant criticism...
With his technical staff, he had visited the headwaters of every Argentine river, studied every public-works project, met every provincial governor. He had learned what labor costs, how the bureaucracy works, where industry might expand. Now, in a private capacity, he meant to go back, bid for the big-money jobs and cash in on U.S. know...
...year our support in the internal wars has gone to an unrelated and opportunistically-determined assortment of forces. Russian expansionism's basis for triumph has been its ability to force a choice between extremes. On the one side stand the regimes of the old; on the other the Communist bid to meet the pressing kind of desperation Europe knows today. Organized political forces advocating democratic socialism have repeatedly found themselves squeezed, outmaneuvered, so placed they cannot reach out for a mass following. No appreciable help has come to them from the United States. In the struggle between the Communist promise...
Ninety minutes before the Varsity match Peroy's Freshmen make their bid for an undefeated season when they meet the Yale cubs in the Payne-Whitney...
Straughton Gettier 1DV, was delegated to submit a draft for the possible constitution of the enlarged group. His report will attempt to define the aims, purposes and functions of the Association, preliminary to a bid for official University recognition...