Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those were good reasons. At least I thought so. But the vote was against me and those who thought with me, as the people before have indicated that they sometimes differed with me. They did then. Now, as all good citizens should, I claim to play the game. . . . The rules of the game of popular government are that all living under that government must obey. It is not patriotic, it is not sportsmanlike to evade or disobey...
...Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares between 1920 and 1927 were copious and astonishing. Glass products had mounted from $14,000,000 to $30,000,000; clay products from...
...hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the students, discontinued them. He was Dr. Thomas Chalmers, kindling and original personality, whose principal claim to fame is that he led a secession which split the established Church of Scotland, and presided over the founding of what is now known as the United Free Church of Scotland...
Coal Situation. Of U. S. coal companies, only the Island Creek Coal Co. admits that it is making satisfactory profits. Practically all the rest claim that they are losing money. Certainly most are. They have millions of tons of coal mined and ready .for : sale at low, unprofitable prices. But sales have fallen off. Electricity, gas and oil are supplanting coal. This economic shift is inevitable...
...Janeiro workmen last week were hanging bunting and raising flags; an official reception committee was hiring bands, inviting speakers, preparing lands; the three aviation companies of the city were garnishing their planes-all to welcome home this week Alberto Santos-Dumont, whom all good Brazilians claim invented the first flying machine...