Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case as a private scrap between the industry and NRA authorities. The New Englanders maintain that high costs due to the NRA and the processing tax on raw cotton have necessitated higher prices, permitting the Japanese manufacturers to undersell us on our own domestic marekt. Under these circumstances they claim Japanese competition to be endangering the very existence of the industry, and have consequently filed, through the Cotton Textile Institute, a complaint with...
...groups, thus disguising our real national interest as represented in trade with Japan, and precipitating a trade war. Should this nation embark on such a trade war with Japan, officials fear that our foreign trade might be realt a blow far more severe than that which the textile interests claim is threatening them...
...betraying its sponsors for all ads now look alike. . . . The boy and girl in their bathing suits being too ecstatic about a case of beer are the same boy and girl on the next page swearing they couldn't live without one of the four cigaret brands that claim to be better than each other...
Only the day before, the News declared that undergraduates can claim a right to know how the A.A. is being run. "We would demonstrate," declared the editorial, "that it is to the best interests of the A.A. to make public their figures. For they cannot be blind to the fact that at present the goodwill of the student body is not theirs...
After page 150, the book becomes interesting, and after 250 pages have been covered, the reader enters the relevant part of the discussion on prisons which gives the book its only claim to value. The narrative becomes animated and gives the impression that the writer knows what he is talking about without being deceived by the worship of years. The Mutual Welfare League of Auburn and Sing Sing is discussed in a manner interesting to all who have considered the problems of prison administration either from a governmental or sociological view...