Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First witness: New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, daddy of the Act. Whether he will stand pat, publicly voice a belief that NLRB has gone astray but that the statute is as good as ever or offer some compromise amendments of his own, Bob Wagner refused to say. Last week the Administration, which generally looks to Bob Wagner for advice on Labor matters, significantly omitted the Wagner Act amendment from its list of ten "preferred" items on the Senate calendar...
...Government would then own outright loan stocks which cost it about 8.5? a pound. At that price, the world market would not absorb it. In order to sell it, let the Government offer its cotton to exporters at about 8.5?, pay them a bounty of from 2? to 3? a pound for as much as they can sell abroad. Result: exporters could sell cotton abroad at about 6½? and turn a profit...
...Foreign manufacturers would then pay less for raw cotton than U. S. manufacturers. So let import quotas be imposed on textiles to protect the home market, and offer further subsidies to domestic manufacturers to help them compete in foreign markets...
...Pliny Fisk had pegged the Government bond market at 110. One day, he happened to be standing behind the late Edward H. Harriman on the floor of the Exchange when Harriman, who had gone heavily short, attempted to break the market by a sudden offer to sell $500,000 worth at 90. Fisk promptly accepted, offered to take all others...
...Blue Devlis were all not to have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest...