Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New Cabinet. At Speaker Fitzroy's bidding the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for...
Later the National Assembly, again at Senor Azana's bidding, swept away the whole system of Catholic primary education. Article 46 of the new Constitution, now being built by the Assembly article by article, day after day, was adopted with cheers. It provides that "Primary education shall be free...
"My lords and members of the House of Commons ... in bidding you farewell, I earnestly commend you to the merciful protection and guidance of Almighty God."
Although at first tales were circulated that a merger of all the lines involved was planned, no such announcement was made. Shipping men believed that the U. S. Shipping Board had ordered the Dollar and Roosevelt interests to reach a quick agreement on their bidding for U. S. Lines, that...
Home last week from Russia, Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, handsome young exponents of a bidding system of their own,* reiterated their disdain for Bridge Headquarters, Inc., called it a "merger of has-beens and never-wases." Said facetious Expert Culbertson: "When I was arrested for speaking Russian with suspicious fluency...