Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Missionary Brigham Spencer Young has always been called "Spence" and has never been known in Salt Lake City as "Fifth," his claim to the title was thoroughly justified. His grandfather, the first Brigham Spencer Young, is, at 77, a Salt Lake City court bailiff. His father, B. Spencer Young, is an employe of HOLC. Brigham V, popular but not too pious, accepted his mission call with good grace. While the other missionaries were holding a religious meeting in a Manhattan street last week, he confessed: "I didn't go. Another fellow and I went over to the Hollywood...
...involved and tenuous for most laymen is Italy's claim that she has not violated the Covenant, but not so easily brushed aside is her claim that she did not violate the Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact...
...week for his Jello broadcasts, $100,000 from M-G-M for each of his pictures. Last year NBC gave him a gold medal as No. 1 star of the air. This year his real popularity (as well as the ludicrous exaggerations of radio publicists) is exemplified by the claim that his following...
...where does Mr. Roosevelt get this "permanent" stuff? Spokesmen for Naziism claim their regime will last 10,000 years, but in this country, we understand, there is an election once in every one twenty-five hundredth of that time...
...good little playgoers know, has awarded the golden pat-on-the-back of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and the reverberations filled Times Square. Now that the customary hue and cry has died out, it is possible to point out that, no matter what the worth of its claim to the prize may be, "The Old Maid" is an absorbing, soundly constructed and beautifully worded drama which has been lifted to the top of the list by the incomparably excellent acting of Judith Anderson and Helen Mencken...