Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Cuno, German Chancellor, made his second offer. This is a distinct advance on his last note. The offer, which was made on the advice of the British Government and which takes account of the Belgian plan (TIME, June 11) is for payment of $265,600,000 a year for a period to be settled by an international body. An international loan is preferred, but Germany is prepared to begin payment of these annuities on January 1, 1928, and in the meantime to make a total payment in kind to the value of $595,000,000. Guarantees were offered: capitalization...
France views the German offer with stolid indifference, except in so far as the acceptance of a conference is concerned. It is definitely known that Poincare will demand the entire amount of France's debt to the United States from Germany and will rely upon Britain's canceling a fair percentage of her continental debt in order to balance this claim...
Tufts has an experienced nine that should offer stiff opposition, having won 13 of its 21 games so far this season. Yale it easily defeated by a 15 to 9 count, but it has suffered two defeats at the hands of both Holy Cross and Boston College, Boston University, Bates, Wesleyan, and Fordham were all on its list of victims...
...regret that the Government of His Britannic Majesty was disappointed in our offer of May 2. We undertook this offer at the suggestion of Lord Curzon, assuming that His Lordship, in making his suggestion, desired to be a benevolent mediator in our fight with France regarding her illegal invasion of the Ruhr. Since, however, from the English note of the 13th, the very opposite is apparent, no one need be surprised if our disillusionment is all the greater. Under the circumstances there is nothing for us to do but waive all further negotiations today...
Since being bitten by a lion in a Paris café, Battling Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...