Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Both Congress, the gains of labor and agriculture during 16 years of Democratic Administration. At Georgetown, Del., he reminded some 300 farmers that the county's farm income had gone from $4,000,000 in 1932 to $85 million last year. Roared Barkley: "I don't claim it was all due to the Democratic Administration but it certainly wasn't due to the Republicans...
...Patterson's onetime treasurer (TIME, Sept. 27). In Manhattan, Roland de Corneille, 21-year-old divinity student, and protégé of Porter, told an eye-popping tale. Porter had been offered a $50,000 bribe, said De Corneille, if he would support a phony $500,000 claim against Cissy's estate. He refused, but had told De Corneille that the bribers were trying to make him change his mind and had "threatened...
...annual drive for membership was on yesterday at registration, and Republicans, Democrats, and Wallaceites all reported favorable results, although returns are still unofficial and far from complete. HYRC and HLU both claim to have more than compensated for losses by graduation last year, while the Wallace group has signed up 92 freshmen with an almost equal number of upperclassmen expressing interest
Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent...
...free-style spending quickly drained Argentina's postwar hoard of $1.2 billion, and IAPI got the blame for the country's financial trouble. But guilty though IAPI is of high-handed, nearsighted policies, of waste and corruption and corner-grocery bookkeeping, Perón can rightly claim that it has done much to lift Argentina from its old colonial economic status. Foreigners no longer own the railroads or the telephones. Foreign "exploiters" operate only under great handicaps. It is in terms of this sort of economic emancipation that the Peronistas defend IAPI and its works...