Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that far off day when the North was shocked with a concrete illustration...
...reformation came. Drake got a new charter and the approval of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its endowment grew into six and later seven figures. It is striving to become as well-known for scholarship as for its annual relay races. Its latest merger is a bid for efficiency, not monopoly...
They had come to bid farwell to M. le President Gaston Doumergue as he left Paris for Marseilles (see p. 26). They were MM. Raymond Poincaire, Paul Painleve, and Edouard Herriot, now respectively Premier, War Minister and Minister of Public Instruction. The hour was 10:27 a.m., and they knew that the President's special train would not pull out until 10:30. Three minutes remained to kiss M. le President Gaston Doumergue goodbye...
...Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick, who was lately painted into the picture in place of Col. Edward Mandell House, joined Paris bigwigs and thousands of school children to bid farewell to the cyclorama when it left Paris...
...citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35¢ a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government should accept the lowest bid. To which Postmaster General...