Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military science has certainly not grown simpler since then. To bring the bickering about conscription down to earth, the real question seems to be whether or not we will engage in war under any conditions. If the answer is in the affirmative (and I think no one will claim otherwise), is it not merely simple logic to provide ourselves with the most perfect military mechanism we can devise? To do otherwise is to butcher innocent boys when war does eventuate, as Hitler so clearly points out. . . . We must choose now whether we will appease or fight if necessary, because...
Prudence and a word from Adolf Hitler kept it from moving in. Hitler ordered Rumania's King Carol to settle the claims of both Hungary and Bulgaria before Sept. 1. King Carol began to wriggle and stall. Last month, with Bulgaria's claim to Dobruja agreed to but still unfulfilled, Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky sent delegates to Turnu Severin in Rumania to present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest...
...their joy Hungarians forgot that whenever Germany gives Hungary something, she takes more for herself. By guaranteeing the shrunken frontiers of Rumania, Germany had squelched Hungary's claim to the rest of Transylvania and Rumania's part of the Banat...
...Hanah Theme," "Barber Shop Theme," "Charlie Motif"), but the music was fashioned, and orchestrated, by Composer Willson. Although Actor Chaplin always writes music for his films, this was the first to be performed in concert. Said the critics: "Obvious as most satirical attempts. . . . Interesting. ... A pleasant trifle. ... It cannot claim to be concert music...
Sharpest tomahawk to be flipped in Mr. Ickes' direction came from Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who devoted three columns to Mr. Ickes and what Pegler called the "Social-Democratic party." Quick to claim his scalp, Columnist Pegler whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted...