Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers were moved by these erroneous reports, they were influenced much more by self-interest. To kitchen and dining-hall workers, young, rapidly becoming proficient at their jobs, desirous of summer jobs now and better winter jobs later on, the American Federation of Labor had much to offer, whereas membership in an inside union would have proved a drawback. For the other groups, older, on the whole better off, anchored to Cambridge by families and real estate, there was little in and international brotherhood to compensate for its high dues. It is significant, too, that those who most trusted...
Mournfully replied Minister of Agriculture William Shepherd Morrison, a protege of Earl Baldwin: "The Ottawa Empire agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for rain. Within 48 hours heavy rains doused almost the whole of the British Isles, the drought was called "definitely broken...
...committee recommended that the schools provide much more art, music and other esthetic outlets, that they offer children a fair balance between failure and success. Greatest need, however, is unworried, better-balanced teachers, preferably married...
Alibi. Since it is unpleasant for any Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...
...after President Edward E. Brown of Chicago's First National Bank had remarked that Government regulations hamper the free flow of credit. Said Jesse Jones: "There is a widespread feeling that credit is not readily available at banks on the character of security that many businesses have to offer, security that, in the opinion of the borrower, would furnish full protection for the lending bank. . . . I am firmly of the opinion that banks generally have not been particularly wise or energetic in meeting the credit needs of the country. . . . Banking is a franchise that carries responsibility, not merely...