Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noble excerpts: "I, Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, am here today to claim that justice which is due to my people and the assistance promised eight months ago, when 50 nations asserted that aggression had been committed in violation of international treaties. . . . "It is my duty here to inform the Governments assembled at Geneva-responsible as they are for the lives of men, women and children-of the deadly peril which threatens them by describing to them the fate which has been suffered by Ethiopia...
...passed doubled up taxation worse than ever, not only retained the old corporate taxes virtually in full but also abolished the normal tax exemption (4%) which individuals could claim in regard to dividends. It allowed no exemption from the undistributed profits tax on any portion however small of a corporation's profits retained for reserves, set the tax on undistributed profits on a scale ranging from 7% to 27%. Chief terms...
...friend of the court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means of transmission cannot affect or diminish the power of Congress to regulate respondent's activities...
...thriving advertising testimonial business of true nobility in the U. S., Castilian Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuovo and French Count Joseph Monneret de Villard formed a Noble-men's Club of America. Said Baron Castelnuovo: "For those of the 700 or 800 persons in New York qualified to claim noble titles we shall provide a dignified medium for commercial contacts...
...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...