Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national fame. The bitterness of unceasing attacks on him in the West Coast press has undoubtedly gained him more friends than enemies. As in the Presidential campaign last year, the workers began to suspect that if a man was so hated by Capital he must have considerable to offer to Labor. Privately and publicly damned as a communist, an alien agitator, a ruthless doctrinaire, an unscrupulous wrecker with a lust for power, Harry Bridges has become, in three years, the bogey man of the Pacific...
...called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted to return to work, and the local's president Fred Wetmore resigned for "the good of the Union"- meaning...
...Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter accept. What Mary Smith does not know is that the young man is J. B. Ball's only son, rebelliously trying to make his own way in the world. What neither she nor the young man know...
...Instead of depending on brand new shows whose authors are willing to waive royalties on the chance of a producer's seeing and liking their work, typical 1937 rural playhouse will stick to tried & true, love & laughter shows from bygone seasons. More than one summer stock company will offer Let Us Be Gay, Candlelight, The Second Man, Meet the Wife, not the least of whose virtues is that royalty rates are low. They will be performed by ambitious youngsters from little theatres, conscience-stricken celebrities temporarily on leave from the films, Broadway people with their futures before and behind...
...Crusader Katterfeld in personal interviews. In five years he canvassed libraries, universities and schools in 45 States and in Canada, estimates that he traveled 42,000 miles by bus, train and trolley, 12,000 miles on foot, made sales talks to 20,000 persons. He found that most universities offer some instruction in evolution, but that many present it as an unsubstantiated theory and many more avoid the term "evolution" entirely. Baylor University in Texas does not teach it at all. Mr. Katterfeld found that the worst metropolitan foci of anti-evolution feeling were Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles. In Boston...