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...instance about competitive Lidding. The Post Office Department found it couldn't accept just anybody's bid. There had to be a determination of who would be able to perform, who could carry out the contracts. This is why the law provided for the award to the "lowest responsible" bidder and ultimately made it necessary for departmental discretion to be used in order to get the best service in different parts of the country for the public...
Mary E. O'Connor, New York's State Director of Purchase: We have 1.700 bidders on our mailing lists, and under the State finance law, must purchase from the lowest responsible bidder. Today, in many groups, there is no lowest responsible bidder. ... All purchase terms are identical. . . . [NRA] has been used to promote the interests of the Captains of Industry and has substituted the slogan "Do as I say and charge what I tell you" for the intended slogan "Goods shall not be sold below cost...
...which there are some forty thousand, were set aside as positions for the disabled. The blind and crippled were supposed to have preference. LaGuardia discovered that these posts were bought and sold, not distributed to those who had a legal right to them, but allotted to the highest bidder. The machinery behind this petty manipulation masks itself under the pious title of The New York Newsdealers' Protective and Benevolent Association, directed by a common gangster named Jake Sbar. The price tag on a newsstand ranges from one thousand to eighteen thousand, and once the cash is passed. Sbar, in connivance...
...bonds will be sold to the highest bidder, with bids to be opened March...
That it was on both counts for five days last week. Fully 2,000 people at a time crowded the gallery. So many socialites jammed the front rows that one eager bidder at the rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...