Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial...
...owns one-fifth of the U. S. Last week President Hoover was inclined to give half of this away to persons who apparently did not want it. His offer, in the name of Conservation, had strings...
...Dixon with a 2,000-word message, containing a proposal that these 302,000 sq. mi. be turned back, free, to States in which they lay. The President proposed the appointment of another commission (his ninth) to investigate the matter. But there were important reservations in the Hoover offer: The States would get only the "surface rights" to this land, the U. S. retaining the all-profitable mineral rights. Forest reserves, power sites, national parks et al. were to be held...
...Britain a larger slice of the German Reparations "spongecake" (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.) was all but won. From midnight on the Continental powers steadily though stubbornly yielded. Soon after the ancient Binnenhof clock clanged one it was known that Mr. Snowden had received and accepted an offer satisfying 82% of his demands. After a month of false rumors of agreement correspondents would believe the welcome truth only if uttered by drawn-faced, cripple Snowden himself. As he passed through the gates of the Binnenhof at two a. m., hobbling wearily on two rubber-tipped canes, they surged about...
...modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered that Grafter Calhoun had paid to San Francisco...