Word: claim
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Last year the noted anthropologist was attacked, following publication of a similar article, by a member of the Massachusetts legislature, who claimed that the ideas embodied in the suggestion were "fascistic." Professor Hooton ends his latest article with an answer to such a claim, stating that "opposition to better breeding comes from those who are determined to retain power over the masses...
Before the hearing A. P.'s loudest claim had been that the suit threatened freedom of the press. At last week's hearing A. P. soft-pedaled this issue. But the Government pressed it. Said one of its attorneys: "The First Amendment was intended to keep the press free . . . not for private newspaper enterprise alone, but for the reading public. If the press is to be truly untrammelled, it must be free from restraints imposed upon it by any combination...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...
...Philip Morris Co.'s ads stress that its cigarets cause less "throat irritation" than any other brand. According to FTC, the "scientific tests" on which this claim is based were inaccurate, and when smokers change to Philip Morris nose and throat irritation due to smoking is not cleared...
Throughout the 19th century New Orleans disputed Manhattan's claim to be operatic capital of the U.S. The plush opera house on Bourbon and Toulouse streets was the focus of Creole society. Debutantes in French muslins hung over the rails of its red and ivory boxes. People in mourning and octoroon courtesans took their opera behind latticed screens. Barbers and hairdressers discussed high Cs with their customers. During one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: "Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet." Many a French opera...