Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basing its arguments on the impracticality of an Anglo-American alliance, the Debating Club will endeavor this afternoon, to convince some 2,000,000 English and American radio listeners of the validity of its claim...
...State court charged with permitting $66,000 of the alleged embezzlements of his brother. Moreover, against Samuel Sr. and seven of his associates is still pending a Federal indictment charging violation of the Bankruptcy Act. Not unless and until he is freed on these other charges can he claim complete vindication...
...grandson of Johann Strauss I, a nephew of Johann Strauss II whom he greatly resembles. Johann III has the old Strauss way of conducting while fiddling. He inherited his uncle's job as Court Ball conductor for old Emperor Franz Josef. But for most Viennese his chief claim to fame is his name. His compositions (he brought "ein trunksful'') are mediocre and rarely played...
...Fleet at Jutland, the same date. As even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied best to prove that England really won. Neutral U. S. readers, however, will still feel that much can be repeated on both sides...
...limped in to their base at Scapa Flow. By the time the British Admiralty got around to contradicting the German report, Englishmen and the world at large were inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first to quit the scene of battle, never again ventured out to seek a general engagement. England's Grand Fleet, though never used...