Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest blow of its career was struck at ASCAP last week from within its own organization, when four of its publishers and their subsidiaries resigned their memberships. Together the four claim to have published some 40% of the music most in demand. They are Harms, Inc., M. Witmark & Sons, T. B. Harms Co. and Remick Music Corp., all subsidiaries now of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which announced that it would hereafter do its own dickering...
...weakness of the League in these first fifteen years of its existence has been due primarily to our absence, for, because of our pre-eminent economic and potential military strength, our claim to the right as a neutral to trade with the aggressive state has made all efforts of the League to establish collective security abortive...
People often claim that Harvard prestige and wealth make for special privilege. It can be pointed out that Harvard has utilized no influence in this trial whatsoever; she did not even educate the Judge. Consequently, the responsibility for the sentence, which must seem like a joke to the public and a triumph to vested interests, rests solely with Judge Green, not with the College...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...
...whom he had mentioned as his consultant. In Worcester, undeterred by the impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly announced that there was nothing to substantiate Dr. Warriner's claim that he had deliberately done away with Le Tourneau. Snapped Oldster Warriner: "There were four physicians in [North] Brookfield at the time. The others are dead. I am alive. Therefore all others who were acquainted with the case cannot corroborate my story...