Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even our own country take a holier-than-thou attitude? It's true, America can justly claim to be the most democratic world power, but there are ever-present threats within as well as without which demand a liberal dose of "eternal vigilance." What about Georgia's Governor Talmadge, the Dies and Rapp-Coudert committees, the hounding intolerance of the "justice" dealt out to Bridges and Browder? These are sinister ripples which could easily become a whirlpool of suppression. However fine the direction of Roosevelt's foreign policy, what about the hypocrisy and backhandedness of his means? What about...
...Real and practical radio experience" is what officials of the Crimson Network claim to offer all upperclassmen in the competition which will begin this evening at 7 o'clock...
Because the British public feels that the interned Fascists have an easy time away from air raids, with plenty of food, bathing beaches and cinemas, there was a stir of protest in London. The British Communist Party used the incident to claim that the Fascists rioted because they have friends in the Government, pointed a finger at War Secretary Captain David Margesson and Minister for Aircraft Production John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon...
...also somewhat critical of U.S. radio, for being complacent under "advertiser domination." To advertisers' claim that they give the public what it wants, he retorts with a crack from George Bernard Shaw: "Get what you want or you will soon get to like what you are given...
Alicia Patterson Simpson Brooks Guggenheim, thrice-married favorite daughter of Captain Joe Patterson, last week all but called her father a liar. In her year-old tabloid, the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, pretty, 34-year-old Alicia wrote an editorial, THAT 80 PER CENT, about isolationist claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily...