Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mind you, I have no objections to your taking sides. That is your right, and in view of your connections it is perfectly-normal that you should be in the Dewey camp. But be frank and honest about it. Do not claim to be giving your readers impartial news and then print such obvious partisan nonsense as the above quotation...
Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...
Each time reconversion talk bubbles up, installment finance men get hopeful. Only such small specialty groups as the jewelers have openly agitated for early relaxation of credit controls. Large department stores are pleased with the regulation, claim it has speeded payments, kept accounts in good shape...
...Administration's responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster was up again last week. Republican Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, in a speech at St. Paul repeated the oft-made charge that responsibility for the disaster rested solely with President Roosevelt and other high Administration officials. His specific claim: that they had six hours' notice of the time & place for the attack, but did not warn the Army & Navy in Hawaii. Said he: a new secret report had been completed by the new Navy Court of Inquiry, but was being "suppressed" by the Administration...
...Germans still held four Estonian islands blocking the mouth of the Gulf of Riga-the large islands of Dagö and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu. Last week the Russians seized Vormsi and Muhu by amphibious assault, landed marines and tanks. Berlin claimed that German warships had tangled with the Red Fleet, now freely ranging the eastern Baltic, and had sunk many landing barges-but there was no claim of dislodging the Reds from their island footholds. Heavier naval action in the Baltic seemed likely soon...