Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged with the health & happiness of some 2,000,000 souls, began to dicker with huge Electric Bond & Share, top-rung owner of Tennessee Public Service. T. V. A. wanted to buy certain properties of the private utility, then sell them on easy terms to Knoxville and neighboring communities...
...undisputed master of more than half a million working men. When NRA first began to negotiate a coal code, most operators who had thrown off the union yoke in 1927 pooh-poohed the idea that U. M. W. had their labor already sewed up, flatly refused to dicker with Leader Lewis. A serious bituminous strike in Pennsylvania helped to change their minds. By the time the coal code reached the stage of public hearings in August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene. Before a packed auditorium a Deputy NRAdministrator sang out: "We will now hear from the president of the United...
Irritably amused by all this were the opposition politicians, themselves pretty disorganized. When Dr. Grau San Martin went stiffly to dicker with them for support, he first decreed the dissolution of all political parties, then refused to give them any hand in the Government. They gave as the first condition of their support that he resign. Scoring their "impertinence," President Grau San Martin nevertheless had good grounds for fearing last week that he was about to pass on into History. While a coalition of his opponents mulled over an ultimatum to serve on him, President Grau San Martin philosophically announced...
...parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke tossed tear bombs, provoked a clash. That started the strike which spread until last week 15,000 soft coal miners were out in Pennsylvania. When United Mine officials volunteered to negotiate a strike settlement, U. S. Steel flatly refused to dicker with them...
...Nanking. Chiang Kai-shek promptly described the Canton expedition as "futile." There were other facts to suggest some truth in the Cantonese charges. General Hwang Fu, generally considered friendly to Japan, rushed to Peiping as an emissary from Chiang, presumably to dicker for peace. Word reached Tientsin last week of a Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China...