Word: offers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the left-wing Oregon Commonwealth Federation circulated initiative petitions to get Franklin Roosevelt's name on the May 17 primary ballot. Federation officials maliciously challenged John Nance Garner to file in the primary, jeered: "If your Oregon sponsors have difficulty securing requisite signatures, we offer you assistance...
What is Italy to offer France in exchange for such plums? This was naturally kept a close secret by both parties, since it can only relate to Italian moves favorable to the Allies, and therefore displeasing to the Nazis and Russians. Italian public and official opinion follows the Church in its fear lest either Naziism or Communism or both be carried violently into the Balkans or Near East in the next few months. This the Allies must try to stop, and II Duce is resolved to trade on the "nuisance value" of the Italian Navy and Air Force...
...Minister were closeted. Shortly after the interview ended, a happy communiqué was issued indicating "progress." Spokesman Summa summed up the talk with a confident double negative: "There will not be a non-treaty situation between Japan and the U. S." But it appeared that Japan would have to offer more than the Yangtze promise...
...ideas in the form of a memorandum which I would like very much to submit. . . ." Up rose Leon Henderson: "I object. ... I regard it as decidedly a disregardance of the orderly presentation of information. ... If it needs any stronger language I will be glad to offer...
Luckily for his book, Guiterman doesn't make many such plunges. He writes almost exclusively to offer reassurance (and sometimes succeeds in conveying it) that in a world in which Romans rhymes with abdomens, there must be room for play...