Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon whispered among Democratic professionals, that, with a wild scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination in prospect for next year, could become one of the most important political developments...
...when he and State Parks Director J. W. Brinson Jr. were questioned about an apparent $4,650 overcharge on the state purchase of gardening machinery. Jones got to Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that's the best you can offer, it's a poor way to start negotiations...
Three years ago, though out of power, Britain's Laborites gained 204 seats in borough elections. Last week, having dropped 216 in the last local election, they were just about back where they started from. The conspicuous failure of Labor's leaders to offer any spirited competition or nourishing program suggests that had Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called a snap general election in May. as some of his Tory advisers urged him to, he would have been safely in for another five years. Macmillan's mandate runs until May 1960. Though Laborites and Conservatives are about evenly...
After the drop last year, the Social Service Committee decided to consolidate its activities in settlement houses, to "spread itself thick" in the words of one member. Partly as a result of the renewed interest, P.B.H. has been able to offer near-professional service to the community in its social work...