Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News reports of Chou's offer reached the White House just before the President flew into Washington for the day from Newport. After a two-hour luncheon session with all available National Security Council members, he and Dulles drafted a reply. Jacob Beam, U.S. Ambassador to Warsaw, was available to reopen talks with his Chinese opposite number, they wrote. "If the Chinese Communists are now prepared to respond, the United States welcomes that decision . . . Naturally ... we will not in these talks be a party to any arrangement which would prejudice the rights of our ally, the Republic of China...
Tempted by a standing job offer on the Abilene Daily Reflector, Milton was even more attracted by the promise of a teaching career from Kansas State President William Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit...
...their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust. Travel bureaus now offer all-inclusive air tours to Rhodes, the Canary Islands, Sicily, the Soviet Union and even a special round trip to Communist China. French and Italian tourist bureaus advertise regularly in German newspapers...
...resorted to an extraordinary tactic. "If money can buy the end of the emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found...
Last week Curtice pointedly announced that a change in the corporation's management meant no change in G.M.'s offer to the union (see below), i.e., a two-year 16? hourly wage package as opposed to the 48? package the U.A.W. demands...