Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge was impressed with Sheppey's Island, a vast forest-covered camp on Big Tupper Lake. John V. Sheppey* of Toledo had offered his camp to the President this summer. There is a possibility that Mr. Coolidge will accept his offer in 1927, in case Irwin Kirkwood (publisher of the Kansas City Star) should dispose of White Pine Camp...
...preliminary to any compromise whatsoever. . . . Ensued complete deadlock before the peace negotiations had even begun. The negotiants bowed formally to one another, dispersed. All hope of peace seemed gone. Then 17,000 Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with the Miners' Federation, accepted an offer from the Bolsover Colliery Co. to resume work at their former wages, agreed to labor 7½ hours a day. Though capitulation by 17,000 miners out of a striking 1,000,000 meant nothing, an impetus to separate and regional agreements was thus given by example. Tory mine owners, prematurely exultant, touted...
...lockout" (so called by the miners) consisted in the posting by the mine owners of an offer of work at a wage less than that which the miners had previously announced they would accept...
...feeling that the Roman Church is antinational. This is the reason why we need expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual...
...fifty years my highest respect and friendship, because I believed that people was destined to receive from the old world the torch of a great ideal of humanity to carry on higher and higher. It is now for that people to pronounce judgment on itself. I can only offer the supreme homage of my silence, if I am mistaken...