Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand outstretched. His short talks always included: "If I was as bad as they say I am, I would not have been Prime Minister so long." His formal speeches were always sprinkled with phrases like: "Now that this terrible period of war is over. . . ." In Saskatchewan, the Prime Minister bid for left-wing votes ("We will take from those who are favored and give to those who are less favored"). But even in that socialistic province, he acted like a man who was sure he would...
...north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio's Fiume. Italy after the last war presented the peacemakers with a fait accompli by seizing Fiume. Tito last week followed D'Annunzio's gaudy example and bid for permanent possession of Trieste and all Istria, which would greatly enhance the Mediterranean position of the states grouped around Russia. Britain reacted as she must wherever her Mediterranean control is threatened. The U.S. Government, acknowledging its common interest, reacted with Britain...
...Republican by family tradition, Dr. Butler was a party man from the time he went as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention. In 1912 he became the G.O.P. vice-presidential candj-date and went down to defeat with Taft. In 1920 he made a bold bid for the Presidential nomination with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Pic-Nic in November." He got only 69 votes...
...provision that war plants should be leased at first, and not sold, was also made to enable small business with limited capital to compete with big business. Biddle made it clear that any disposal policy should favor small business. Example: a "number of small business interests bidding for a plant that could be broken up might well be favored over a single rival whose bid might even produce more cash." The yardstick in all cases, said he, should be the number of jobs-and competition -created, not the amount of cash paid to the Government...
...buying up tottering railroads whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...