Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resignation. At a Cabinet council held at No. 10 Downing Street, the Labor Government met for the last time, decided, as it no longer held a mandate from the people, to tender its resignation to the King...
Dear America! What a naughty boy you are growing to be! Prosperity has spoiled you; you have grown too fat to retain your tender sensibilities. You are too active, and have got out of control. ... You don't mean to be bad, after all, and you were born a good child. I love you all the same. But nevertheless you are too arrogant. . . . You are giving military drill to your girls. Shame! You are making military preparations day and night. Against whom? Whom are you afraid of? Of Japan...
...right and left inside, W. E. Trevett '27 at center, T. R. Wickersham '26, J. E. Purdy '25 and Captain Patison at the halfback positions, J. A. MacKinnon '27 and J. J. Sullivan Jr. '25, a two-year veteran, at fullbacks, and R. H. Thomas Jr. '27 as goal tender...
Having acceded to the demands of the militants (TIME, Sept. 15), Senor Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile, was forced to tender his resignation. Senate and 'Chamber, however, declined to accept it. They were requested by the President, who had sought shelter in the U. S. Embassy, to reconsider their decision. Again they refused to countenance the presidential resignation...
...tender age of 23, or thereabout, Mr. Gilbert became a law clerk in a firm of Manhattan lawyers. Here he remained for nearly three years, lost in the midst of Manhattan's hordes. In 1918, he became a member of the War Loan Staff, did valuable work, received due recognition. In June of 1920, when not yet 28 years of age, he was nominated by President Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When the Harding Administration succeeded that of Mr. Wilson, he was reappointed to the assistant secretaryship and in June of the same year, his importance...