Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China. Sir Miles named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel...
...debtors' schedules, call in creditors and attempt to work out a compromise which the court would later confirm. The hitch with a farmer's debts is that he generally owes only a single creditor, the holder of the mortgage on his farm. If he refuses to dicker, the farmer is balked at the outset in producing the kind of majority agreement the court requires before discharging the debtor. Conciliation commissioners were provided to try to make mortgage holders see reason on debt reduction...
...Lord Marley is one of Britain's official war heroes. As chief Labor Party whip in the House of Lords, he is a thorn* in the side of onetime Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald who may soon travel to the U. S. again to dicker debts with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week the debt policy of Scot MacDonald, who has never pretended to have a head for figures, was announced for him by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, arch-Conservative Neville Chamberlain...
...such treatment shall no longer apply to all but hereafter only to specified items of trade. Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation so as to be free to bicker & dicker, after March 4, with President Roosevelt who has indicated that he favors bargaining methods to adjust the world's tariff problems...
...handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they were ready to dicker on a shift from Garner to Roosevelt...