Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...
Izvestia's bid brought swift, hot retorts from many a U.S. Catholic, cold disapproval from many a non-Catholic. Sharpest comeback was from Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "As Soviet Russia has already served notice that America and Great Britain may not interfere in the question of Poland, so now it serves notice on religion that it may not interfere in the question of Europe. From now on we may expect . . . a separate peace...
...will U.S. shipowners meet air transport's bid for passenger business? Barred from flying planes of their own, and forced to wait months while troopships are converted to passenger liners, the ship operators' postwar outlook for passenger business is dismal. For many foreign-flag ship operators will probably be permitted by their governments to establish their own air service...
With this tremendous force Hitler made his last great bid for Russia. On July 5, 1943, huge columns of tanks, spearheaded by Tigers, rumbled forward. But the Russian lines did not snap; they merely moved back. By month's end, the Germans again were in general retreat...
...horrified co-defendants awoke him he reached for a pencil, drew his classical cartoon of contempt of court (see cut) which he captioned "Art Young on trial for his life." After the case had been dropped, the prosecuting attorney (who had had to admit that "everybody likes Art Young") bid for the picture...