Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment the prospects for progress are not bright. It is possible to argue that Hitler's defeat is essential to the political and military security of the United States-and if that were clearly the case, his conquest, even by actual belligerency, would come first. But to assert, as the President and his Liberals are doing, that War and Social Progress go hand in hand, is either dangerous self-hypnosis or deliberate deception...
...Still walking a picket line in Bayonne, N. J. at week's end were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
...their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear gas and brickbats and lead. So controversial was his right to claim the Presidency that the real campaigning did not begin until after the election. For a time it looked as if General Almazán would surely assert his right in the old-fashioned Mexican way, by revolt...
...little flesh around the jowls, a figure not quite so lithe and supple as that which reamed the college campus" is the prediction made by the report of the present crop of females twenty years from now. Even so they will not be divorced, statistics assert. Only one percent of those studied have separated...
Duck maybe-eagle never." Fannie Hurst (pro-Roosevelt): "This is the end of an era, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and don't you forget it." John Llewellyn Lewis: "I assert again that the re-election of President Roosevelt will result in the nation's involvement in war." Frank R. Kent: ". . . Support...