Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved to offer my congratulations by TIME'S achieving the impossible in outdoing itself. I refer to the Edward-Simpson resume in the Dec. 21 issue. For writing, for journalism, for wit, for rationality, it is, I think, unsurpassed in its field. I had become so fed up with the hysterical, pathetic, impassioned and - warped newspaper accounts of this now famous imbroglio that I've not bought a paper for several weeks...
Nebraskans are quite willing to turn down George Norris' ideas upon occasion. Only last month, McCook held an election to decide whether to accept a PWA offer of $105,000, 45% of the cost of bringing in electricity from the Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...
Last autumn Carib Syndicate, Ltd. informed its stockholders it had received a $2,000,000 offer from an undisclosed group for its 21% interest in the fabulous Barco oil concession. Since little Carib did not have the money to play along with its big partners, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp., in development of the jungle oil properties in Colombia, the stockholders authorized their directors to accept the offer (TIME...
Much less enthusiastic about Batistism was President GÓmez who said bluntly, "The bill is antidemocratic, invades the scope of the civil authority, and tends to militarize childhood. I shall veto it." This made "The Savior" so angry that even when the National Sugar Mill Owners Association offered to pay the tax without any legislation, he waved their offer a.side, spluttered, "The bill must become...
...sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped to get it from Walt Disney, whose singing mouse escaped few months...