Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what it wanted. Quick came the claim that the farmer's new profits under the bill would be immediately absorbed by increased costs in building material, paint, clothing, special foods and the like...
...wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming even more amorphous, gives up for the present the claim that a class grows unified in its last year. But there is still time for the Seniors to overcome their reticence or indifference. The June festivities will probably not be barren of caps and gowns; it is only unfortunate that six weeks are required to bring them for the second time...
...withstanding all this and the scornful claim of the cognoscenti that after all the Pops are not cultural but pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...report was used by the power interests to support their claim that there is little or no interstate transmission of electricity and therefore no Federal problem, calling for Federal investigation and regulation. The report fitted so happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...
...that is the time when the men he would find most value in associating with are doing their studying. Of all those who desire to see lights burning in the laboratories as long as they do in the reading rooms of Widener the pre-medical student has perhaps first claim...