Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though his friend Major George L. Berry carried on the meeting-denouncing the strike as an A. F. of L. plot to embarrass him-John L. Lewis refused to cross the picket line, even declined an offer to cross if the pickets were temporarily withdrawn.* Four days later in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, while he was in the midst of a wage conference with coal operators, an emissary interrupted him with the disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis...
Because Rexist Degrelle is a thorn in their flesh and because they appreciate that Premier van Zeeland stands for traditional, quiet Belgian politics and for no fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
Almost equal in physical appointments, thoroughly cross-sectioned in every meaning of the term, and closely alike with regard to room prices, the seven units of the House Plan apparently offer little to the outsider who would distinguish one from another in desirability...
...Houses blessed with a private kitchen, Dunster has long been known to offer complete gustatory satisfaction when plaintive cries of inhabited haddock and aromatized butter disturbed other localities. The paneled dining hall is not at all reminiscent of the Boston Garden, but commands a pleasant view of the Charles and serves adequately when festivity fills...
...ever gracious Professor and Mrs. Haring preside pleasantly and always cooperatively over the social life of the House, while the list of Associates and Tutors offer a happily gregarious attitude to students who seek their company...