Word: offering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tremont telling us of his surprise when, one evening, Clémenceau drove to his Château de la Guignardiere and expressed his wish to rent the little farmhouse at St. Vincent sur Jard. M. de Tremont told the old Tiger that he was only too glad to offer the place to him. The story of the old countess seemed the more amusing to me in that M. de Tremont is a bachelor. As he is very wealthy, I doubt very much that he would think of making money out of the last home of Clémenceau...
...will amplify my offer," snapped bristling-mustached M. Venizelos next day. "I offer M. Tsaldaris the portfolio of Interior for the period of the plebiscite...
...professorship, Mr. French felt that he must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant Professor Frederick Albert Pottle of the Graduate School, a mighty young authority on Johnsoniana...
...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...
Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...