Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
...with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster's services...
...Telephoned Mrs. Landon at Estes Park, Colo, to offer congratulations on her 38th birthday...
Time & again a curt long distance call from the French Cabinet to the Rumanian Cabinet has blocked the dismissal of M. Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster...
Last March, when the strike was six weeks old, the News management offered a settlement, in the form of a standard employment policy developed with other Milwaukee newspapers. It included restoration of the five-day week, minimum wages, vacations with pay, dismissal notice with pay, sick leave with pay. This offer was rejected by the Guild because the Hearst management would not agree to its being witnessed by Milwaukee's Federated Trades Council. In time's course, while Guildmen and sympathizers busily made deep cuts in News circulation and advertising, the national Guild organization joined the American Federation...