Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Ludwig seemed likely to offer valid entertainment...
Such payments are the keystone of the Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
...State of Mexico, made known the result of an investigation which he had promptly ordered when Hero Barber reached Mexico City. Said General Ortiz, contemptuously, "I always believed that only in Hollywood were such interesting stories evolved as that of Lyman Barber. . . . All that Barber actually did was to offer his guards money, which they accepted with pleasure, and then guided him to safety. . . . Such people as Barber always talk too much...
Although the Department of State refused to say why, there were two good reasons for raising the ban: 1) French industries are so conservatively managed, offer such sound investment opportunities, that U. S. financiers are impatient to do business with them; 2) Because a French general election looms this Spring, it is prudent for the U. S. to make a friendly gesture, tending to further the election of Deputies favorable to ratification by France of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement...
...series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters faint and reappear. Christopher Tietjens, who loves Valentine Wannop, watches his wife Sylvia practice unfaithfulness; at the end of 285 pages Mark Tietjens, brother to Christopher, dies of disease. Were it not doubly impertinent to offer advice to an author whose works are so obviously satisfying to himself, some brash but discerning critic might paraphrase one of Author Ford's titles, saying to him: "The purpose of writing is to express, not to conceal; let us have no more charades...