Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses, Hooverizer of the East, was loudest in the Republican chorus of amazement. He said that Mr. Raskob was "chasing rainbows." He said: "My claim of Massachusetts for Hoover is emphatic and vociferous. . . . We laugh at the Raskob claim of Nebraska. . . . We have great expectations of Missouri. . . . I share Mr. Hoover's confidence that we shall carry New Mexico and Nevada...
...best ultraviolet glass, when a little old, lets only one third of the available ultraviolet sun rays pass through. (Manufacturers claim no more...
...Whiting, like Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and other Coolidge intimates, went to Amherst college. But he was nine years ahead of Mr. Coolidge, whose class was 1895. It remained for their sons to be undergraduate comrades. This association has perhaps helped fortify Mr. Whiting's claim against William Morgan Butler and Frank Waterman Stearns to being "the original Coolidge man." If Mr. Butler or Mr. Stearns was invited to the Commerce Department ahead of Mr. Whiting-and one of them was so invited-no false pride or lack of understanding prevented Mr. Whiting from playing a distinguished second fiddle...
Candidate Kohler, relatively a newcomer to politics, laid no emphatic claim to party fame, Regular or Progressive. He was, however, left unembarrassed by Nominee Hoover, who was at pains not to take sides publicly when he passed through Wisconsin in July. To Regulars, Mr. Kohler could offer the facts that he helped nominate Mr. Hoover at Kansas City; that he is a Big Business Man-$45,000 per annum salary, master of one of the largest U. S. manufactories of bath tubs, lavatories, waterclosets, kitchen sinks (in colors); that he keeps fine horses, flies an airplane, favors the St. Lawrence...
Atheists are hampered in their activities by the fact that few public personages dare testify to disbelief in God. Sensation seekers crowd their ranks and an atheist fanatic is equalled in insane ferocity only by an inflamed revivalist. Yet leading atheists claim many famous figures as their allies. Such figures are: Sinclair Lewis, Clement Wood, Clarence Darrow, Freeman Hopwood, Theodore Dreiser, John Broadus Watson (behaviorism), E. Haldeman-Julius, A. G. Keller...