Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arrested with the Count last week was one Philip Gowen who, according to M. de Polignac "was American agent of my company from 1904 till the Prohibition Law." He alone of the 32 who formed the ''ring" at the time of his arrest did M. de Polignac claim to know. Later developments: the Count de Polignac sailed as he had previously intended on the Paris. His pistol but not his liquor was returned to him. Said he: "I have never sold wine in the United States, nor have I collaborated with anyone doing so. ... I want particularly...
...main stream of poetry in any period always has countless little counter-currents and side eddies that are interesting if only to point the contrast with the dominant tendency. "Thalia" is very much one of these off-shoots, and this in spite of the publishers' claim that it is "fresh and modern in its point of view...
...Singapore the coolie says, with a shrug: 'Ahpah bohlch buot?" In plain American: 'What's the use?" As the Saint-Simonistes claim: "Voilà l'exploitation de I'homme par I'homme...
...chorus of U. S. philosophizing, somewhere between the deep notes of John Dewey and the loud guggling of the Menckens, two voices are raised-Walter Lippmann's, young and clear, Ludwig Lewisohn's, old and sad. The two have much in common. As Jews, both men can claim rich philosophical heritage. As conscious Americans, both incline to intense modernism. As intellectuals, both prescribe an adaptation of Greek philosophy...
...swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock Market, pictured as a kind of financial safety valve in which surplus funds may harmlessly be blown off. Mr. Simmons did not claim, however, that these surplus funds should remain in the call money market. If, said he, the corporations that are lending money on securities would instead buy those securities (that is, if a corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting into the call money market $100,000 secured...