Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry VIII's divorce, TIME was in accord with standard histories (The Cambridge History, The New Larned History, etc.). Because it regards itself as a part of the universal Catholic Church (the final break taking place after Henry's time), the Anglican Church claims succession from the Apostles. Actually the Methodist Church, founded by John Wesley, might make a similar claim, since it in turn split from the Anglican Church...
Last week the Allies' Northwestern Expeditionary Force (its newly announced official name) tried to scramble aboard Norway by way of the slushy, slippery, narrow, air-vulnerable ports left to them by the Germans above and below Trondheim. Its main effort was to get ashore and stake first military claim to the northwest coast of mid-Norway. Before the week ended the issue became whether German-held Trondheim was to be a beleaguered post in an Allied-held sector, or the key post of a German-held mid-Norway which the Allies had rashly invaded...
...Babies" because they were designed and calibred in anticipation of Japan's walkout on the 1936 London Naval Conference, Britain's new battleships are armed with ten 14-in. guns in one two-gun and two four-gun turrets. They shoot 1,560-lb. shells, claim to have greater range and hitting power than earlier British 15-inchers, to be only slightly inferior to foreign 16-inchers. Their speed is over 30 knots, seven more than that of the Nelson and Rodney, completed in 1927 and hitherto Britain's most modern capital ships. Of their displacement weight...
WILD GEESE CALLING-Stewart Edward White-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Still to be written is a good novel about Alaska pioneers, Jack London's glamor books about the Klondike notwithstanding. Staking claim to be the first, this story of Alaska's plain pioneers is the 577-page tale of an idyllic young couple who drifted to Alaska from the Pacific Northwest, let the gold rush go by, while Husband John trapped, hunted, logged, did odd jobs, also proved he could outshoot and outfight the best of them. No less sentimental than prolific Author White's 21 other picturesque...
...Mormons who stayed in the Middle West set up the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Independence, Mo., chose Founder Smith's son Joseph as their president. When he died, he was in turn succeeded by his son, Frederick Madison Smith. The Reorganized Mormons claim that Young's attribution of polygamy to Joseph Smith was a base libel. Emma Hale, say they, was the prophet's first and only wife, even though the Dictionary of American Biography credits him with...