Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born hands on its tankers with U. S. seamen. Lieut,. Commander Allan Wurtele, U. S. N., retired, announced on his New Roads. La., sugar plantation that he was ready to contribute $5,000 to a fund to buy Danzig, the Polish Corridor, and give them to Adolf Hitler. "This offer may sound screwball," said Commander Wurtele...
...made proposal after proposal. . . . I made an offer to them some time ago which was the most loyal and most generous imaginable. Only I, myself, could have made such an offer, although I knew millions of Germans disagreed with me. . . . Over a period of four months I have been looking on. . . . I proposed a solution on the basis of direct negotiations. For two long days I have been waiting. . . . My love of peace and my endless patience should not be mistaken for weakness. . . . I am now determined to talk the same language to Poland that Poland has been talking...
...When Nazis interfered with Polish customs officials, Foreign Minister Beck countered by closing the Polish frontier to offending Danzig concerns. When Nazis threatened to precipitate a crisis by disregarding Polish authorities, he sent an ultimatum to the Nazi Danzig Senate, demanding that interference cease-but added a conciliatory offer to negotiate, postponing a showdown. When the Senate agreed to negotiate, the frontier ban was lifted...
Accepting the $21,000 first-place money, Peter Astra's owner, Dr. Lowry Miller Guilinger, a 70year-old horse-&-buggy doctor from the Ohio sticks, announced that he had just refused a foreign-syndicate offer of $37,500 for the bay colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this...
...needed to cover a full year's dividend ($8) on the company's 651,091 shares of preferred. Last week its preferred shares sold at $109½, yielding 7.3% to income-minded buyers who counted on holding it on the possibility that Mr. Davis will offer them a trade-in for U. S. Rubber's common. The common last week sold at $43, up 466% from 1935's low, versus a 42% gain on the Dow-Jones Industrial average...