Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, at Lake Success, the U.S. deposited its bid for sole trusteeship of the former Japanese Pacific mandates. The Carolines, Marshalls, and Mariannas were only dots on a world map, but control of them could assure control of the whole western Pacific. The U.S. proposed a "strategic area" zone, where it could draw the curtains if it wanted to. Unstressed were two highly pertinent facts: 1) the U.S. was in possession; and 2) the U.S. could veto any unwelcome counterschemes...
M.I.T.'s underdog fencing squad administered a 15-14 defeat to Rene Peroy's unbeaten Varsity yesterday, to mar the Crimson's bid for a perfect slate. The match was a dead heat until the final bout...
...afternoon tilt yesterday, much-defeated Adams House lost again to Dudley, 49 to 30, to give the Commuters top honors for team scoring in the day's court wars. Also in the afternoon a fighting Lowell House squad edged out Eliot's bid for its second win by a narrow 36 to 35 margin...
Corrigan had topped 26 other bidders (including the inadequate but politically embarrassing $9 million bid for McLean Gardens from the Veterans Cooperative Housing Association). The fact that Leo Corrigan made off with these two prized housing developments (they have all been profitable to DHC; would surprise no Texans, who know Corrigan as probably the biggest real-estate operator in the Southwest...
Leader M. J. Coldwell. And in Mackenzie King's speech last November in Quebec, he made what was considered a left-handed bid to the socialist CCF to join the Liberals, in a pointed remark about the ineffectiveness of "a multiplicity of parties...