Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Greek cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. Almost as many in the U. S. claim to be the birthplace of the Republican party. When the party came into being in the early 1850's, slavery was the prime issue. When last week the town of Ripon, Wis. (population 4,000) attempted to establish its title to "founding" the Republican party 75 years ago, Prohibition, in the form of Dry raids by U. S. agents, overshadowed the news of the celebration...
Similar independent meetings were held about the same time elsewhere, notably at Friendship, N. Y., May 16, 1854. The first state convention of Republicans met at Jackson, Mich.,* July 6, 1854, the first national convention at Pittsburgh Feb. 22, 1856. Today New York, Ripon, Friendship, Jackson, Pittsburgh all claim to have "founded" the Republican party...
...thousand people helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
...theory that Big Names can often do Big Things, Joseph E. Barlow, 66-year-old U. S. citizen with a $5,000,000 land claim against the Cuban Government (TIME, April 29), last week hired what he considered two Big Names to help him pull his claim through to payment. One name was Campbell Bascom Slemp, the other was Everett Sanders. Both were once secretaries to President Coolidge. Shrewd men both, Messrs. Slemp and Sanders entered the Barlow case just at a time when it appeared most likely to prove lucrative...
...fairly claim for the plan that it reflects our best judgment of what the settlement ought to be, arrived at with the advice, not of the governments, but of the peoples, functioning through the press which modern communications have made instantly effective in every interested country in the world...