Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could hear on good authority that Hitler had proposed the Czechoslovak Question be arbitrated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy. Or that, if Czechoslovakia would renounce her Soviet alliance, the Führer would offer her a non-aggression treaty such as he made with Poland. Or that Hitler proposed that Germany, Russia and France should join in guaranteeing to Czechoslovakia a neutrality status like that of Belgium. Germany was said to ask some reduction of Czechoslovakia's armed forces, as well as maximum Nationalities Statute concessions to the Sudeten Germans...
...build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...
...driving a Manhattan taxicab for three days. In 1934, his elder daughter Ellen married John Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last August he went into bankruptcy listing among liabilities of $4,907.39 a $1.48 laundry bill. Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors...
...Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker three months ago submitted to Congress his preliminary report on A. T. & T., suggesting among other things a 25% cut in telephone rates (TIME, April 11). A. T. & T. claimed that it had been refused the right to cross-examine witnesses and offer a prepared defense. Last week. FCC agreed to consider such defense before submitting its final report to Congress...
...operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer too many chances for overcapitalization at the expense of stockholder and consumer. This was the basis of the Public Utility Act of 1935, which United and its fellows have fought...