Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Rumania's snarls were angrier, Hungary seemed more ready to bite. Thousands of troops were manning the Rumanian frontier. In Transylvania, Hungary was deliberately conscripting men of Rumanian ancestry to reduce Rumania's ethnic claim to the territory. In Ankara, it was reported that Hungary's Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Franz Szombathelyi, had recently been in Sofia trying to persuade Bulgaria to sign a joint ultimatum against Rumania...
...claim that diplomatic stress & strain between Vichy and the U.S. would soon be over was made this week by Vichy's wily little Vice Premier, Admiral Jean François Darlan. He said that "full agreement" was near. He implied that Vichy would guarantee the neutrality of the French Fleet and all of France's African colonies, including Madagascar, Axis-coveted strategic stronghold in the Indian Ocean. Admiral Darlan also said that the U.S. would resume food shipments to French North Africa, cut off last November when Vichy recalled her North African commander, Maxime Weygand...
Washington said nothing. But Admiral Darlan's claim that Vichy-U.S. relations were improving was backed up by positive Vichy action. It was revealed that a German submarine stopped last month at Fort-de-France, Martinique, and landed an officer with a gangrenous leg who badly needed a hospital. The U.S. Government immediately demanded that Vichy forbid the Axis the use of French Western Hemisphere ports, for any purpose whatever. Last week Vichy promised...
...Jackson the Argonaut is an institution, a legend, the town's chief claim to a niche in history. Grizzled, bourbon-swigging, pistol-packing prospectors first struck the Argonaut about 1848, were soon whooping it up in the noisy, ramshackle saloons & cafes of nearby Jackson. Broken and empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county...
...turning in the best performances in eight of nine events, the Elis may well improve upon their 1941 performance at Annapolis when they took eight of the 11 titles. The 59 to 16 walloping they gave Michigan, Big Ten champion, last month, assures Bob Kiphuth's men a clear claim to the mythical national title...