Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident...
...fine, three years in prison, for evading $250,000 in Federal income taxes. His co-defendant and assistant, Joseph Moskowitz, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000 for "aiding and abetting." Shocked by his sentence, Movieman Schenck recovered to ride out to LaGuardia Field, bid good-by to his friends Norma Shearer and Lady Ashley (Douglas Fairbanks' widow) as they left for Hollywood...
Under the new proposals, the middle and upper classes would have less money to spend next year, would be in no position to help bid prices up. Lower-class purchasing power would be curbed, though in lesser degree, by the new consumption taxes. In effect, all this adds up to one additional means of giving defense priority over consumer purchases...
Seeing Harvard still swinging ahead at a lower beat, M. I. T. made its bid for top honors just at the bridge, taking the stroke up itself, and foreing Wagner up to 34. Harvard held the same stroke to the very end, and drove ahead in the last five-sixteenths of a mile which round out the Henley course to cross the line in 6:56.2, nearly two lengths ahead of the beaten Engineers...
...Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which has gained no pay rises since 1937, began negotiating last month with U.S. Steel for a new contract. Its asking price: 10? an hour more pay (current rate: 62½?). The company's bid: 2½? an hour. There was plenty of room for compromise. Big Steel said the industry could absorb a $1 increase, would find 7½? on the borderline, would have to up its prices if the 10? demand went through. When a threatened strike was postponed for more negotiations, everybody expected management and labor to meet halfway. They reckoned without...