Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POLITICAL NOTES). During the War he had acted as Commandant of the Allies' largest flying school (at Issoudun, France). In the last three months he has made an investigation of Government air bases and air routes. President Coolidge, conscious of all this, shook the Senator's hand warmly, bid Hiram Bingham, Honolulu-born Yankee, a hearty welcome, conversed with him for two hours...
...drizzling rain the President and Mrs. Coolidge bid goodby to Mrs. Goodhue and started for White Court. Their route had apparently been kept secret and the dripping White House limousine passed through Holyoke, skirted Springfield, moved through Worcester. The journey of 145 miles to Swampscott was completed a leisurely five and a half hours...
...that the wife had found the husband unbearable, had decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum, 21, pretty, plump, short, graceful and possessed of "large, .luminous and altogether entrancing black eyes," is the daughter of Mouamerou-Chaki Bey, rich merchant of Smyrna, who once had connections with the New York Stock Exchange...
...closes the history of the Board's offer of 200 ships for scrapping or operation (TIME, July 20). It began several months ago when the Board asked for bids on 200 ships. It continued when the Board opened some 20 bids and found none from Henry Ford; and Mr. Ford told the Press that he had sent a bid. It continued when the Board reopened the bidding, rejecting the largest bid-$1,370,000. It continued when Mr. Ford submitted a bid for $1,706,000. It concluded when the Board accepted Mr. Ford's bid last week...
...Only Henry Ford could have gone at buying the ships in the way he did. . . . After the other bids were opened, along comes Mr. Ford's agent to say that he is now ready to bid, in full confidence that the other offers will be rejected and a new call for bids will be made. One has to be powerful to expect such consideration...