Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crisis, he had been backed by the Gaullists. Last week, both the "Cocos" and the Gaullists were against him. Their motives were different, but both attacked the centrist government to win popularity and power (Paris wiseacres predicted that De Gaulle would make his bid in March or April). The strange political bedfellowship was caused by the old political axiom that you can always catch a vote by attacking higher taxes...
Explaining his objections to the Truman proposal, Professor Slichter said, "The $40 cost of living tax credit would give people more money to spend. Industry is already producing at capacity. Consequently, if people spend their money for goods, they would simply bid up the cost of living. They would lose in higher prices what they would save in taxes...
Northeastern's only success in four starts, however is an opening game victory over M.I.T., 6 to 4, and the Crimson will be favored tonight in its bid to re-enter the win column after a six-game famine...
...support. Ever since Henry Wallace made his first tentative gestures toward a third party, organized labor and many of his own liberal friends had been deserting in droves (TIME, Dec. 29). Only the Communist Party and the regrouped P.C.A. united behind him. Nevertheless, this week Henry Wallace made his bid...
When the one-millionth G.I. left Britain's Southampton for Normandy after Dday, wartime Mayor Rex Stranger was on the pier to bid him goodbye. The mayor learned then that Sergeant Paul S. Shinier hailed from a town called Chambersburg in Pennsylvania, that he had left behind him a young wife named Marian and a two-year-old daughter. At the end of their chat Mayor Stranger promised that if anything should happen to the G.I., he would see that the widow and child in Chambersburg were cared...