Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of their leader. Practical considerations moved other Democrats to feel that the death of Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full of such sentiments...
...consider it "unconstitutional" and last week, when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...
Amelia Earhart was born 39 years ago in Atchison, Kans. Her father was a lawyer and railway claim agent. She went east to study at Columbia University, then west to be with her parents, who had moved to Los Angeles. In California. Amelia saw many more airplanes than in Kansas. The idea of flying excited her. Famed Captain Frank Hawks took her up for her first flight. In 1918 she made her first solo, after ten hours of instruction. Two years later she set a woman's altitude record...
...city of Waukegan whose merchants claim $125,000 annual business from local marriage mills, the week brought an end to their role of Illinois' Gretna Green. Illinois quick-marriage business will go to neighboring States. but not to Wisconsin, which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent...
...pressure are the usual fillers for electric tamp bulbs manufactured in the U. S. In Europe, however, krypton-filled lamps have been manufactured by Philips Glowlamp Works of Holland and other companies for about three years. Krypton lamps cost 75?, compared to 25? for argon lamps, but their sponsors claim that a 40-watt krypton lamp sheds as much light as an ordinary 50-watt bulb and that the cooling effect of krypton remarkably prolongs the bulb's life...