Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent any bondholder who can prove damages from collecting from the U. S. Taking refuge behind the ancient rule of law that the sovereign can not be sued without its consent, the resolution would withdraw "any consent which the U. S. may have given" to the assertion of any claim against the Government for payment in 100? dollars on any of its securities, coins or currencies. Besides closing the door to legal action, the resolution put an extra padlock on by providing that no money shall be disbursed from the Treasury to pay any such claims...
...were God," observed No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels a few days later, "I would select other spokesmen than those who now claim the right to speak for Him. . . . Many intellectuals are trying to help the Jews with the ancient phrase, 'the Jew is also a man.' Yes, he is a man but what sort of a man? The flea is also an animal...
...present at the Detroit convention. Publishers Clarence Barren of the Wall Street Journal and John Bigelow of the New York Evening Post were members. Contemplation in a New Church church in London inspired Poet William Blake to write his "Songs of Innocence." In formal or spiritual fellowship Swedenborgians also claim Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Andrew Carnegie, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard, Amelita Galli-Curci and Eddie Guest...
...conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against 20 to 80 years for Northern conifers...
...pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then blackmailed Mose's best friend to refute his claim of self-defense...