Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past" were nonexistent, although he did not settle the spoils charges. He indicated that High-Hat Walter Brown's seeming collusion-&-conspiracy policy was an effort to reorganize a chaotic industry. He left the way clearly open for the old companies, since reorganized under new names, to claim damages amounting to about $2,500,000. He said that the Government had no case...
When the score was added up, the R.A.F. claimed having wrecked-"either permanently or for a long time to come" -17 ships of about 90,000 tons, including the 17,000-ton Balocran. As is almost always the case with air attacks, this claim was doubtless super-sanguine; but if it was anywhere near the truth, the R.A.F. had in one afternoon put almost as much tonnage out of action as the Nazis do in an average week of the Battle of the Atlantic...
...Germany called its war zone. Moreover, said the President in his message, "I have . . . issued orders to the Navy ... to insure the safety of communications between Iceland and the United States." It now seemed inevitable that U.S. and German forces would clash in the Atlantic. But no observer could claim that U.S. public opinion was prepared for a struggle of the magnitude of the one that was in the making. It was a great question whether the U.S. public would not dismiss, as a manufactured "incident," the first conflict that came...
...Lasker traveled to Oyster Bay, how Teddy, all smiles, teeth and outstretched arms, burst in to greet him, crying out, "Mr. Lasker, I've been told that you have the master advertising mind in the country." Said Lasker hastily, "It would be presumptuous for any one to claim that, in your presence...
...name is Jimmie Macdonald. I will be seven months old tomorrow. I don't claim to be TIME'S youngest reader, in fact I know I am not 'cause last night my baby sister who is three weeks old was crying and nobody in the cabin could sleep...