Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged that this advertising was unnecessary and that it would increase the cost of coal. The operators answered that the cost would not amount to more than a few mills...
...venture to offer the opinion . . . that the qualities and character of Abd-el-Krim and his associates are formidably high, as high as those of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his associates; and that any underestimation of their force would be fatal to the European course in North Africa...
...industry proposed by the owners is longer hours and lower wages and the miners will not hear of either. They have made no proposals of their own and their attitude is purely negative. They simply will not listen to the terms put forward by the owners who decline to offer any others. This means that both sides are marching steadily and deliberately to battle...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who strenuously fought the Admiralty chiefs, did not even offer to resign. Doubtless he remembered that his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had written finis to his political career in 1886 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he suddenly made good his threat to resign, ostensibly because he also would not agree to the shipbuilding demands of the Admiralty. And who should be in a better position to learn the lesson which Lord Randolph neglected than his father's biographer, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...TIME, Aug. 4, 1924); of the night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...