Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposition. Manufacturers leap to fight the 30-hr. week. Bankers line up solidly against inflation. Catholics battle birth control. For almost every other economic or social measure there can be found a body of citizens who, through self-interest or principle, will offer organized opposition. But for the Townsend Plan no such body exists. Contemplating a scheme which would alter the whole economic and social structure of the U. S., no individual citizen has yet felt personally & sufficiently aggrieved to organize an anti-Townsend club. Most thinking citizens have ignored the Plan, or dismissed it as too remote or fantastic...
...English 47 at Harvard, he let a group of pupils headed by Witter Bynner submit original plays instead of term-end theses. In 1912 Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" was formally organized with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley, Rollo Peters, Percy Mackaye, Donald Oenslager, Van Wyck Brooks...
...dinner party one night by shrilling: "Congratulate me, folks! I've finally arrived socially. Today I got the sheets of Mrs. 'Bordy* Harriman." His friendship with the elder Hearst sons, notably John Randolph, prompted the traditional summons to the Hearst castle at San Simeon, Calif., the offer...
...last year it had assets of $639,000,000, over one-half of which was in cash or liquid paper. During the past 30 years it has sold more than 22,000,000 automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with $28,000 of paid-in capital, it has grossed a few hundred millions in excess of $11,000,000,000, retained as net gain nearly...
...high pressure football coach-namely the matter of salary-was carefully concealed by the announcement. "The Committee will not make public any financial arrangements with Harlow." The report that Harlow has been receiving $12,000 a year from Western Maryland and that he has just recently turned down an offer of $10,000 a year from the Boston Redskin's, although not officially confirmed, point to a salary that should satisfy the most exacting of alumni...