Word: dicker
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...most of the leading New York newspapers and magazines had to pack up on a day's notice and flee with their office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor...
...Hitler's star, but I do think the Russians now feel the need to show Germany and the world in general that this is not the case. Not for Winston Churchill's blue eyes, nor to gratify President Roosevelt, but for practical business purposes in the coming dicker with the Germans...
...roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...
Yugoslavia, where Italy would probably move first, discovered after 22 years that the Soviet Union existed as a State, began to dicker for mutual diplomatic relations, sent a large delegation to the Moscow mob to negotiate a commercial agreement following three months of secret conferring in "a third capital...
Since it was quite clear last week that negotiations for the German-Russian Pact began at least six months before June 16, it was equally clear that the Far East figured in the Berlin-Moscow dicker. Here was evidence in silver and steel that Russia had traded Germany a free sphere in Eastern Europe for one in Eastern Asia...