Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
...Governor," replied the 62-year-old boss of Jersey City, lapsing into grammatical English, "I don't know how to thank you for this offer. . . . But while I am exceedingly grateful to you I will have to decline. . . ." Acceptance might be interpreted as running away from his fight with C. I. O. and "the Reds...
Three times the King repeated: "I accept her betrothal to myself from thee, and take her under my care and bind myself to offer her my protection, and ye who are present bear witness...
...Although no definite agreements were reached, he had a sop for everyone. To his chief opposition, the Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, he could point out the embryonic trade pacts. To the fiercely nationalistic Sinn Feiners he could recall his "32 counties or nothing." To the British he could offer his readiness to shelve partition for a practical settlement...
...flight between San Francisco and Los Angeles as a guest of United Air Lines."* Last week U. A. L.'s paid travel over the 345-mile airline jumped 20% as 172 wives took guest rides. This week United Air Lines and T. W. A. are getting together to offer free trips, good for 30 days, to wives accompanying husbands on any schedule of the Chicago-Newark route...