Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elmer was in the workers' bad books because he: 1) refused all offers of compromise after the union had turned down an offer from him, and 2) demonstrated that the No. 1 industry in a small city is hard for labor to beat. Governor Kraschel was marked for union reprisal because he alternately played the union's and Maytag's games in his campaign for reelection, was consistently helpful to neither side, finally enforced the dismissal of twelve key men in Local 1116, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial...
...Officials of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S., in Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
...many a football fan, the news was somewhat puzzling. They all knew that "The Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30? an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...
...last stronghold of male dominance," she told a Methodist Leadership School at Lake Junaluska, N. C.: "The fact that women frequently put their energies into channels which lie outside the church is often deplored by men who have the interests of the church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they do not find within the church. Until the men of the church recognize this fact, to deplore the defection of women will largely be wasted breath...
...football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...