Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is a foreman? Most employers claim he is a boss, and therefore an arm of management. The Foreman's Association of America, a labor union, claims that a foreman is an employe and thus entitled to bargain collectively. NLRB and WLB have skittishly skirted the question...
Last week the U.S. Army staked out a firm postwar claim in Canada's far northern Mackenzie River oilfields. The Army and Imperial Oil, Ltd. (a Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiary), negotiated a new agreement giving the U.S. the right to 60,000,000 barrels of postwar...
...particularly resented the majority's plan to send "greetings and love" alike to servicemen, conscientious objectors, and those "in prison." Said he: "We claim that our Church has no right to honor the man convicted of obstructing the administration of the Selective Service Act." Neither did he see "the propriety" of honoring conscientious objectors "in the same manner as soldiers...
These were sufficient reasons to clinch slight, earnest Ernie Pyle's claim to the title of No. 1 war correspondent. But last week, as nearly every week, he provided another. Arriving in London from the Anzio beachhead, he gave his 11,500,000 readers a notable example of his warm, richly simple style...
...Government shipment, and the Southern Railway Co. speeded it over the most direct route. Nevertheless, the U.S. Comptroller General refused to let the bill be paid. He claimed that the freight charges should have been based on a circuitous routing, which, though many miles longer, would have resulted in a lower freight rate. Last week the Supreme Court upheld the Government's curious claim...