Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herriot's task last week to win re-election as Party Leader with nothing to offer but his traditional platform of Patience. Such a keynote can be sounded with effect only by a great orator and Edouard Herriot is of the greatest. When Orator Herriot had done with PATIENCE it glowed mellow and desired by all. Without a dissenting voice he was re-elected Leader for the fourth consecutive year by acclamation...
...British legation at Addis Ababa, warned Rome that because of the number of foreigners at Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa, any attempt to cut the railroad to Djibouti and the outside world would be considered an unfriendly act. Heeding all this, Italy last week was reported to have offered to spare the railroad if Emperor Haile Selassie would remove all troops and munitions from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The King of Kings was supposed to have turned down this proposal on the ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects...
...Spanish War service in Cuba and Puerto Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four tomorrow." Smooth-faced, thin-haired, he offers visitors cigars, smokes an old black pipe. No implement man, he leaves routine management to President Max W. Babb and other executives. After he pulled the company through its receivership, grateful stockholders gave him a large bonus and stock-option, which he promptly divided among...
...displeasure, Schwab suggested an "accidental" meeting with Morgan at the Hotel Bellevue in Philadelphia. When he got there he learned that Morgan had caught cold, could not go out, wanted to see Schwab at his home. Schwab committed himself to the extent of going there, heard Morgan's offer to buy out Carnegie, consulted Mrs. Carnegie as to the most diplomatic way to present the project to the tough, white-bearded Scot who spent half his time in his Highland castle and who had planned for 30 years to retire. She advised a game of golf...
Easily the outstanding player on the field was Oulette who threw passes, kicked, ran back kicks, went around ends, and in general eclipsed anything that Harvard had to offer. HOLY CROSS '39 HARVARD Doherty, y.e. l.e., Brassil (P. Knapp) Manoli, r.t. l.t., Gardner (Glendinning) Collins, r.g. l.g., Baum Demont, e. e., D. Smith (Eichler, Noble) Montgomery, l.g. r.g., Caldwell Griffan, l.t. r.t., Radway (Downes) Miglin, l.e. r.e., Pafford Oulette, q.b. q.b., Farquetto (Roberts) Renz, r.h.b. l.h.b., Owen (Roberts) LaTauzi, l.h.b. r.h.b., Pope (Jerome) Osmanski, f.b. f.b., Appel