Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarreling and petty dickering, was in effect a plan to ease international tension by getting foreign soldiers out of Spain. Before the elaborately painstaking plan could be carried out, Spain's Rightists and Leftists had of course to accept. To tempt them into agreement, concessions were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer of a "proportionate withdrawal" of foreign volunteers. Since the Rightist Army has at least twice as many Italian...
...federation is sharply divided. So touchy is this subject that a referendum authorized by the last convention has not yet been held. Having made peace with A. F. of L.'s President William Green, President Davis last week pulled a surprise out of his academic cap: an offer from Mr. Green to let the teachers' organization, which has refused to pay the special assessment for fighting C. I. O.. use the assessment for its own organizing work. The convention unanimously approved this face-saver, kept itself in good standing with both camps of Labor...
Whispered Mother Ruby: "Barbara has an offer from a New York night club at $1,000 a week...
Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad. Although Iraq's western boundary is separated from Palestine by 200 miles of British-mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
...able author of Revolution-1776, shows far fewer of these faults than some, but still needs a further purge. Author Preston has an attentive eye for present-day intellectuals' dilemmas, an attentive ear for their dialogue, considerable humor. But in pointing a solution, the best he can offer is a broken head...