Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership of this local cannot see what the C.I.O. has in any way to offer us. . . . The C.I.O., having been in existence for two years, has as yet not organized itself as a central federation. It has had no convention. It has no constitution and bylaws, and appears to be what John L. Lewis or some other high-up says it is. It appears to be a dictatorship by a top committee which is all against the principles fought for and established by the component organizations of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast...
...over the land were radio actors who six weeks ago opened up an active membership drive for 10,000 members as a subdivision of Equity. Presided over by energetic Lawrence Tibbett, the independent American Guild of Musical Artists, is currently hoping that the A. A. A. A. will offer its patronage and simultaneously revoke the charter of the Musical Artists' rival Grand Opera Association...
...sheriffs and other irresponsible ruffians for the express purpose of threatening, intimidating and coercing its employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease dances, and to otherwise engage in gratuitous, licentious conduct at times when union meetings were scheduled for the purpose of enticing its employes from attending such meetings...
...Lawyer Liebowitz it is all in the day's work. Routed from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...
Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores: Avoid contact with bumboat men who offer doubtful liquor and may be robbers...