Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...
This was the highest cash bid,* although the Illinois Institute of Technology had offered $5,500,000 in cash and long-term notes. And it was only $307,000 less than the Stevens' net cost to the Army in the first place. To rent the hotel would have cost over $1,000,000 (including some $300,000 for restoration...
...addition, there are twelve Halls of Art now operating throughout the U.S. and about 150 stores have bid for the privilege of opening others. Next fortnight a Hall of Art will open in Gimbel's department store in Philadelphia, the following week in Pittsburgh. Future Pochapin plans: 1) to furnish artists with materials, deducting such costs when paintings are sold; 2) to turn Art Movement into a nonprofit organization...
...Liberation Committee's recent purge of elderly and ex-Vichyite officers. But the French leaders were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic victory-still without benefit of tact. France's united front was a bid for recognition and participation in any Allied peace negotiations with Italy. Said Commissioner of Information Henri Bonnet: "I hope [the new accord] will have a good effect on ... the U.S. and Britain. . . . Nonrecognition will not prevent us from becoming stronger...
Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...