Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, still smiling strongly, made his last appearance next morning on the upper balcony of Iolani Palace where, to a crowd below and all Hawaii by radio. he delivered a seven minute address. Shrewdly he titillated Hawaiians by espousing their favorite claim: "Your Administration in Washington will not forget that you are in very truth an integral part of the nation.'' But nothing did he say of increasing the islands' sugar quota or continuing the historical policy of appointing Governors only from residents of the islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality...
...other forms of business, financial enterprises require profits to keep them going. There is, not the slightest thought of eliminating or restricting proper profits. . . . The earning power of a nation should be the controlling factor in establishing security levels, and the security business itself has the right to claim part of this earning power...
...Albuquerque, were repeated with only minor variations at Williams, Ariz., at Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento. Reno. At the last place he thumped for the Federal deposit guaranty law, declared: "I have heard this and that Senator given the credit for this legislation, but I want to claim it here and now for the Democratic Party, lock, steel and barrel. The guaranty of bank deposits was a very plain and very definite pledge of the Democratic Party in the year...
...endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives him a recommendation for the job written on a white slip of paper. If his credentials are better than satisfactory his recommendation is on buff paper. If his claim to a job is superlative his recommendation is written on blue paper. Officials who hand out jobs know what the colors mean and act accordingly...
...resolved to be on his best behavior. At Waterloo, Iowa he delivered his first speech (see p. 12). It was one of the most conciliatory, public utterances he had made in months. Curbing his reckless Johnsonese, he did not say that all his opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth and claw to get freedom of the Press written into their code. Said the NRAdministrator...