Word: offers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hotel Kemp, heard the German broadcast and several others from foreign stations, but still could get no confirmation from Finnish officials. No news came from the Finnish Diet, which wrangled in secret far into the night, debating whether or not to accept at this last hour the Allies' offer of 50,000 troops. Morning came, and though news correspondents were certain now of peace, Finns were not. A carpenter busy boarding up a store window against more bomb splinters said to the New York Times'?, George Axelsson: "I have not heard anything about it [peace]. But perhaps they...
...Hore-Belisha was not satisfied. Had the Allies qualified their offer in such a way as to make the Finns think the assistance would be too feeble? This the Prime Minister declined to answer...
...minutes later, a professed Episcopalian chimed in. Said Franklin D. Roosevelt, outlining his latest peace ideas: "I offer my greetings to you, as a congregation of faith, in the certainty that you will help to keep alive that spirit of kindliness and faith which is the essence of civilization. I am confident of your ultimate triumph, our ultimate triumph, for the ideals of justice, of kindness, of brotherhood which cannot...
Last week, having scrutinized the "competitive" offer, Union Station rejected it, made an announcement that provided Morgan Stanley & friends with their best argument yet against competition. The $16,000,000 issue was sold at $99.43 to Kuhn, Loeb's syndicate. Kuhn, Loeb's bid, made before the issue was thrown open to competition, was better than Halsey, Stuart's offer. Wall Street joyfully ticketed the case as a hard wallop to competition. It showed that "noncompetitors" can and will make bids as high as competitors...
Despite the offer by Alan Gottlieb '41, president of the Student Union, to refund all money taken in, the policemen refused to withdraw the ultimatum against the play...