Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masses are thinking. Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering, rules his paper from a lofty office in the Gothic Tribune Tower, possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform for 1936: Turn...
...officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week the London Times indicated that Premier Largo Caballero's jig was up, thus: "Great Britain now considers with less hesitation the prospect of recognizing the Government of Franco inasmuch as the Madrid Government has brusquely rejected the British offer to help in the exchange of prisoners and hostages...
Last week in accepting what he took pains to call the "unsolicited offer" of Mr. Hays, Mr. Harmon praised the Pope's last encyclical on the cinema (TIME, July 13), urged Y. M. C. A. men to work for better films...
...chance to enlarge one's personal horizons by social intercourse and exploration in distant lands, as well as further pursuit of knowledge in foreign universities, is ample reason for wanting a year or two across the water before settling down to business or profession. The purely Harvard fellowships offer additional advantages over the Rhodes awards in choice of university, flexibility of program, and short-term appointments. For since these prizes are given out on an annual basis, the student who takes one does not sign away his freedom for three whole years and thus virtually cut himself off from future...
...employment. To be sure the Office can be of little help to the man who is unwilling to take strenuous measures to help himself, but to those men who are prepared to act on the sincere desire to find a place for themselves in the business world it can offer full cooperation and render much assistance