Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...products placed on the free list. Finally, the Canadian Government admitted that it could not guarantee that consumers would purchase British goods even after they were given preference. Net result of the proposal was that a concrete offer had been made and the delegations now had something to dicker with...
...save opposing him. The Garner-Smith Favorite Sons forces might hold a one-third veto power over the convention but there was no sign yet of their combining on a candidate who could muster the nominative two-thirds majority of 770. The idea of Al Smith sitting down to dicker with his old foes, Messrs. McAdoo and Hearst, produced only grins among those who recalled the Battle of Madison Square Garden...
...Dickey who sailed last week with four dude paying-companions, said he could have offered the trip at $1.000. But he offered luxuries-airplane rides, outboard motors, the backing of the State Department. Let less luxury-minded dudes dicker with Duderancher Gill.-ED. "It Isn't Always...
...concentrated behind Governor Ritchie who would advance as a pacemaker. Conceivably he might win the nomination. More likely, he would wear down the New York Governor's strength until that gentleman was ready to send his managers into a midnight hotel room conference with full authority to deal & dicker for support. If Governor Roosevelt declined to bargain, his foes might bring forward Newton Diehl Baker, spared all the animosities of a Ritchie v. Roosevelt tussle, as the dark horse on whose nomination all could compromise...
Because liquor smugglers use rural roads, make no reports, the U. S. Government last week began to dicker with the Canadian Government for a major change in this sievelike border arrangement. What the U. S. wanted was to "close" the whole border, increase the ports of entry to 600, require international wayfarers to cross the line only through such ports. Every open country road would be barricaded. The increased number of entry ports?one about every five miles? would not cause any real inconvenience to those, like farmers, whose daily affairs take them back and forth across the border...