Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hours. It would have been hoped by pro-Germans in the Baldwin Cabinet that Joachim von Ribbentrop would have something new to offer or suggest. Instead his speech to the Council last week was a paraphrase of Orator Hitler's brawling Reichstag speech ten days before. Germany's excuse for remilitarizing the Rhineland remained her contention that France and Russia, by concluding a mutual assistance treaty, violated and thereby voided the Locarno Pact under which remilitarization of the Rhineland is barred as it is also barred under the Treaty of Versailles. Juridically the German case was so feeble...
Hitler's ill-disguised hostility towards Russia is emphasized by his offer of a twenty-five year non-aggression pact to his western neighbors. Taking the quixotic hypothesis that he desires no revenge on France, one wonders why he does not give back the other leg to the dove of peace and sign a similar agreement with the Soviet. Poland may be a buffer state, but in an agreement Germany could extend her border to include Poland, as Britain has to the Rhine. If Germany's attitude were really one of peace, it would be easy to conceive of Poland...
Breaking the precedent of former years, when the Ivy Orator was elected by popular vote along with other class officers, the new system will offer a chance for anyone with ability to gain the post...
...soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...
...last week the Corporation, under the jurisdiction of State Insurance Superintendent Louis Pink, had made encouraging progress. When Commissioner Pink offered to sell the stock (100,000 shares) of National Surety Corp. to the highest bidder, seven bids ranging from $6,545,000 to $10,031,000, cash, were made. High bidder was Henry Ittleson's Commercial Investment Trust Corp., big financier of automobile and other installment purchases. Superintendent Pink considered the C. I. T. bid adequate, recommended its acceptance. Some creditors & stockholders protested, estimated the value of the stock up to $27,000,000. Opinion on William Street...