Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation, a thoroughly competent professional staff of men-experts in code law and economic research. . . . But the majority of the Board has not seen fit to approach this investigation from the point of view of careful research and analysis. . . . We have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast majority of complainants do not present a fundamental question which concerns monopoly. . . . Such complaints in our opinion could and should be handled within NRA itself...
...Evelyn Scott has built a life-size novel from a few strangers' photographs. In her rented East Anglian cottage Author Scott found herself wondering about the people whose group pictures helped adorn the walls, soon was giving names, relationships, histories to their different faces. Though she does not claim infallibility for her method, she implies that a knowledge of contemporary types is all a novelist requires for such a reconstruction: "For the historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality-for me, the contemporary mentality and a few photographs. . . ." Readers who were swept off their feet...
...mysterious disappearance of William II. Sehmidt '37, chairman of he Freshman Jubilee Committee, at a late hour last evening led to rumors of Kidnapping. Friends claim to have wen him Whisked away in a strange Automobile on Massachusetts Avenue during the commotion which took place first night...
Either capital was glad to claim them; the family was equally happy to serve either--or better, both. Today, for example, when political boundary lines throw most of their estates into France, but with a sufficient number of Von Wendels in reserve to manage its German affairs. (Being a De Wendell however, is no necessary barrier to th perquisites and profits still obtainable from the German armament business, as will later appear.) In 1914 the ranking member of the family was Humbert von Wendel a member of the German Reichstag, living at Hayange in Moselle, near the Saar Basin. After...
Samuel Harden Church, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute: In seeking to justify his assault upon Mr. Mellon's character Attorney General Cummings made the announcement that it is his policy to present to each citizen the Government's tax claim, and if the full amount of that claim is not paid without any further discussion of the matter a criminal indictment will be demanded. The cool, calculating villainy of this statement has shocked America...