Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always to follow the G.O.P. line. "I will speak for myself and I will speak freely," he promised, fingering the script of his first broadcast, which will be recorded and flown to the U.S. "I have no wish to reform anything, no wish to preach and no advice to offer. I just want to talk to people about things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion...
Days later, he met Pirogov in a bar on upper Broadway. The embassy had promised, Barsov said, that if they would both go home, there would be no reprisal and no trial. He asked Pirogov to stop work on the book he was writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes...
California's Senator Knowland plans to offer a $175 million Far Eastern amendment along the lines of the one defeated in the House...
...Dyer's fondest hopes is that he will be able to offer a job to any of his ballplayers who want to work after they are through in baseball. There is small chance, however, that Stan The Man, with at least five good years of baseball left in him, will ever wind up working for his current boss...
...appropriate tea or cocktails, a recorded greeting from DeMille and a 40-minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...