Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madam Secretary Perkins corrected an interpretation of her offer to extend "facilities" to the Duke and Duchess, indicated that it stands but is not to be interpreted as an "invitation" to come over as guests of the Department of Labor...
...world's greatest apple orchards, located, of course, in Missouri; considering that Missouri is the nation's foremost producer of apple butter; and considering that all true . . . collectors of apple butter memorabilia genuflect to Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...
...nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider how far they can individually extend aid to China." As taken by Latvia's Munters before the League Assembly and promptly voted by 50 unanimous ballots, with Poland and Siam abstaining, the motion directs League member States who are signatories to the Washington Nine Power Treaty (namely Belgium, China, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, the United...
...business. . . ." Subsequent columns dealt with such topics as "Sliding on the Surface or Digging Deep?'', "What Lands Us in the Rough of the Game of Life," "Thinking Constructively.'' Readers who plowed through these lush homilies generally concluded that Harry Selfridge was about to extend his operations to Manhattan. Last week Harry Selfridge, still pert and lively at 79, declared, "There is nothing further from my mind than to buy a business or associate myself with any business in this country. 'Callisthenes' in Manhattan," said Mr. Selfridge, "is purely an extravagant idiosyncrasy. ... I like...
...years that defy counting the traditional greeting of the Harvard Law School to its new students has been designed not to extend a hearty welcome to its neophytes, but rather to put the fear of God into those rash souls who dared to climb the steps of Langdell Hall and seek therein a legal education. "Gentlemen," the professors in charge of the first classes are reported in effect to have said, "The men who are sitting to the right and left of you today will not be here to graduate with you three years hence." But anyone who attended...