Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure and had abdicated. . "Abdicated? Yes, in 1933, but now with the passing of danger they forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals...
...have given a son to the fatherland in the World War and I do not regret giving the fatherland another. For the greatness of Italy I am ready to offer the lives of my other four...
...prep schools is the problem of the United States itself. A victim of a grotesque system of government cannot by any manner of reasoning be named as its cause. America must realize, as England has long done, that members of the socially privileged classes have as much to offer the government as any other group of the population. Provincialism and gas-house polities have left their sears on this country, and until such failings are overcome, it is both futile and unfair to compare this country's schools with Eton and Harrow according to the number of leaders they have...
...special stockholders' meeting last week the Route of the Empire Builder formally accepted the Government's generous offer, which meant a saving over the bankers' offer of $1,000,000 annually, not including fees. Indignant, the Wall Street Journal whipped off an editorial on ''Taxpayers as Underwriters." pointed out that a year and a half ago Mr. Jones underwrote in effect a Baltimore & Ohio bond issue with a 4½% coupon when bankers thought it should have been 5%. The bonds have since declined 9 points...
...proceeded to do endless research on the manners and music of all the nearby tribes. She gave her first performances in Europe in 1930. For the past six months she has been in Paris, giving repeated recitals. Her U. S. future has still to be decided. Many an offer was made to her before her debut last week. Refusing them all, she said: "I must first show what...