Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this amendment was read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment to it. He proposed that the President be empowered to appoint engineering boards of review to resurvey 'Quoddy and the canal, that if their reports were favorable he be authorized to spend $10,000,000 of this year's relief money to continue the canal...
...find sufficient funds for adequate instruction in the School of City Planning, the net result--abolition of the only existing professional school devoted to this subject -- is very greatly to be regretted. Such a school requires the broad background, provided by a large university with many different departments, to offer an adequate training for the work of the professional planner; to do efficient research work it must have both current and past knowledge readily available...
...this school to Harvard is doubly regrettable when it is considered that ever since the founding of the school, the demand for qualified men in this field has far exceeded the supply. An appreciable percentage of the students attending the Harvard school have been lured away by the offer of excellent jobs, before they had completed the requirements for a degree...
...Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling of the Hauptmann case (TIME, April 13). Said Republican Fort of Republican Hoffman: "No man has done more in my memory to attempt to break down the fundamental American...
...economy, but at the same time practically prevented them by forbidding the railroads to employ fewer men after such mergers than they employed in May 1933. This froze the situation so that virtually no railroad consolidation has been effected at all. All Coordinator Eastman could do was to offer suggestions, which usually tended in the direction of eventual Government management of U. S. railroads. One of Mr. Eastman's favorite proposals is the consolidation of railway terminals in many cities for economy and improved service. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, he wants to route all six railroads serving...