Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week rumor rose that for next summer a direct flight to China was proposed for the first of flyers. An accomplished and reliable Chinese gentleman, also an aviator, sponsored the rumor. Skeptics pointed out that such a spectacular bid for Chinese good will was among the more remote problems of immediate statecraft. Hard-headed U. S. men, soft-hearted U. S. women grumblingly asked when the dangerous far-flung flights of Col. Lindbergh would cease...
...great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard Shaw bid for a mile of notoriety by replying to a telephone question thus: Can I touch my toes? Is that what you've rung up to ask me? Well, God forgive...
Last week, on what chanced to be the 150th legal anniversary of the U. S. A.,* the G. O. P. closed the bidding for its 1928 convention city. Ten cities had bid. Next fortnight the Republican National Committee will pick & choose...
...largest of U. S. cities, New York, did not bid, not only because of the Democratic madhouse of 1924, but because she gets spectacles enough without "boosting" for more. St. Louis did not bid for the same reason that Eureka, Mo., did not-no hall big enough...
...Minneapolis also bid, but only tentatively. Her auditorium was pretty well booked up for June. She was still seeing what could be done about that...