Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly political story in News Of The World has long been the paper's only claim to respectability. For years these serious articles have been amazingly sound and often just as amazingly forehanded. They are a lasting epitaph to that quality in Lord Riddell's personality which made him the companion and confidant of Big People...
Last week the American-Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association celebrated its Golden Jubilee at the Exposition with the greatest of jubilation. Never before could any breed fancier lay claim to so proud a boast. When all the judging was done in the new Temple of Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total...
...tried to balance them as he did the Post Office's. No comfortable legal fiction could relieve U. S. taxpayers from making up the very real $52,000,000 which the Post Office last year spent in excess of its receipts. As for their Chief's claim to the greatest surplus but one in postal history, even Post Office officials admitted that his budget could not be fairly compared to those before...
That to smash the small farmer and exalt the collective farm was good policy is J. Stalin's great claim. He holds the entire situation, including the statistics, in his dictatorial hands. Last week Premier Molotov claimed that this year only 8% of Russia's grain came from small farmers who supplied 86% in 1929. In other words J. Stalin & Co. now claim to get 92% of their grain from collectives?the greatest agricultural revolution in all history...
...Director David Lilienthal would be the last to claim that his doings are primarily emergency measures. And last week a Federal Judge in Birmingham, Ala. seriously questioned whether TVA's vast power schemes were really incidental to the development of waterways. If they were not incidental, then they were obviously unconstitutional and the heart of the Tennessee Valley experiment was null & void...