Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "it never rains on the Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
...Chamberlain doesn't act as though he had read this book, even though it in a best seller," they claim...
...products of the Wartime boom in the chemical industry was the development of non-inflammable plastics. Until then the plastic business's chief claim to fame was the familiar, fire-hazardous celluloid collar. Since then the world has become accustomed to plastic toothbrushes and fountain pens, automobile steering wheels and gearshift knobs, radio cabinets and poker chips...
Figurehead and real head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme...
...page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything I have ever read in fiction."), it gives the South its most pungent picture of common life, the Writers' Project its strongest claim to literary distinction...