Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hanfstaengl was involved in a sensational controversy with Harvard five years ago when his offer of a special Hanfstaengl scholarship was turned down by President Conant and the Corporation because of the donor's close affiliation with the Nazi movement...
Referring to the exodus of instructors, Professor Sorokin says "the better scholars have better chances to receive offers from outside and when they are convinced that the situation after three or five years would be cut down at Harvard, they naturally go to other institutions. Less capable scholars have much less chance to receive an offer and respectively they would remain with us and step by step would supplement more and more the better scholars...
...York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support to Longshot LaGuardia...
...extraordinary conference singularly unlike those usually held twice a year to discuss routine matters. Present were Juho Eljas Erkko of Finland; Richard Sandler of Sweden; Halvdan Koht of Norway and Peter Munch of Denmark. Their agenda: to decide what answer to make to Herr Hitler's offer of non-aggression pacts...
...German Foreign Office to present their countries' replies to German State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the united Oslo Powers front was broken. Sweden, Finland, Norway thanked Herr Hitler for his interest in their welfare, reaffirmed their neutrality, politely declined the Führer's offer. Denmark replied that the Danish Government would be happy to discuss the terms of a non-aggression treaty with the German Government...