Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hirschberg, the first mastodon impresario on record, claims that he has refused an offer of $75,000 for his prize. In as much as Dr. Mather stated yesterday that the approximate museum value of even so large and well preserved mastodon as Mr. Hirschberg's is not over $15,000, it is believed that the Newark business man has not acted rationally in refusing so large a sum. He has confided to several friends that he will accept $200,000 for the mastodon...
Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, the first witness called in defense of Mr. Daugherty, came from a sickbed to offer testimony similar to that of Mr. Williams. Senator Goff, Assistant to Attorney General Daugherty during the Harding administration, testified that Harry Daugherty not only had never been consulted on the claim, but had never offered any suggestions or even discussed the subject until 1922 when President Harding requested an "answer" to the current criticism of the transfer...
Since this plan seemed to offer France her great desideratum - ready cash for stabilizing the franc - Premier Poincare stomached his hostility and distrust toward Germany. While a multitude of technical details remained to be negotiated, acceptance by France of Thoiry seemed assured. Acceptance by Germany was deemed a foregone conclusion and followed a few days later. Peace hovered...
...tapestry in the bedroom of his summer palace. Other Emperors took good care of it; at last it went to the State Museum. French officials said that it was worth twelve million francs and taxed it accordingly. Victor Behar values it at a million dollars. He will offer it to the Metropolitan Museum for exhibition. He wants, of course, to sell...
Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year...