Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese assert that the bandits were paid by the Japanese Government to capture and keep as hostages a number of American and Europeans the idea being to involve China and other Powers and so ultimately impose on China international political control...
...union. This system is in use in bituminous coal mines. The operators do not like it because they are obliged to collect funds which may be later used against them. The union miners demand it because it is a sure way of collecting dues. The operators object to it, asserting that it is illegal, un-American and that in effect it forces a closed shop, giving the United Mine Workers a labor monopoly. The miners' officials demand it, declaring that it is not illegal and gives them the only sure hold over their members in enforcing the miners' contract with...
Labor leaders and others were not long in asserting that the promise of the Institute is no promise because it is conditioned on labor supply. Some even went so far as to assert that there was a plentiful supply of labor on hand and that steel companies were turning men away daily. Mr. Gary himself declared that it could not now be "stated with certainty" when the twelve-hour day would be abolished, but that efforts would begin at once...
...Patriarch Tikhon, who was in a Soviet prison at the time, was unfrocked without a hearing. No man was put in his place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that he has been released by them to weaken the Russian Church by making a factional fight. Many of the peasants and clergy are behind the old order of things in the patriarchate. They have a strong point of canon...
...Chicagoan vaporings assert that " the British syndicate, which comprises a dozen big banks and shipping companies, proposes to reconstruct the railroads in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and possibly also Italy and Germany, and eventually Russia, in one vast private undertaking...