Word: offering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop looking." Moderator Susskind turned to Gene Gleason...
...Formal Offer...
...University has not yet received any formal offer; all proposals to use the Stadium have come only indirectly through influential alumni and politicians, the University official said...
Harvard has the upper hand in these negotiations and must first have a guarantee that most of the mentioned handicaps could be readily overcome and that the assured minimum rental would be sufficient to help Harvard athletics substantially. Only with these guarantees, should Harvard even consider the offer...
...University cannot refuse the offer for such high-minded reasons alone. This holier-than-thou attitude would only raise the ire and resentment of Boston-Cambridge residents who have much at stake in the future of the new professional team. There are, however, several practical considerations that would satisfactorily justify to all concerned the University's refusal to rent the Stadium...