Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S claim to be the first publication to offer perpetual subscriptions must be either withdrawn or considerably limited by qualifications. Since 1920 or earlier, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has offered a perpetual subscription to its quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in connection with a perpetual membership in the Society, for $300. More recently, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has offered perpetual subscriptions to its quarterly magazine with or without perpetual membership in the Society...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
...visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
Aside from being a quiet, unpublicizing executive who has run a big store well, Brother Abraham's chief claim to fame is the Retail Research Association which he organized in Manhattan to effect interchange of operating ideas between big department stores. Like Brother Edward he, normally Republican, was a Smith Democrat. When Prohibition came, he sold his cellar...
...express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...