Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he, "I rise to a point of privilege. I claim a, violation of Sessional Order...
...clear that Germany is going through with her reconstruction regardless of the Treaty of Versailles. All in all, the conciliatory spirit that emerged supreme at Washington will be almost impossible to recapture next year. Japan insists on her rights as the guardian of the Far East, and will unquestionably claim inability to fulfill her duties without a larger navy. It is difficult to conceive of England, Russia and the United States consenting to the dictates of Japan, for these constitute a serious threat to their interests, individually and collectively...
...need for a degree representing general culture, or in other words based on distribution, is discussed in a letter which appears this morning in another column. The author makes the compelling claim that three years of specialization in a field for which he has no further use is not only futile, but destroys the possibility of investigating other fields of knowledge...
Belloc doubly underscores William's legitimate claim to the English throne, based on the intermarriage of the Houses of Normandy and England. It was as good a claim as any, except that it was obscured by William's bastardy. That had been no bar to his Norman succession. But William's strongest claim was the oath of Harold, obtained from the Englishman during his sojourn at the court of Normandy while Edward was still living. This is the traditional view of William's claim. Belloc emphasizes it by dilating upon the nature of the feudal oath. Harold had become William...
From Baltimore's Southern Hotel, where he shared a room & bath with his lawyer, to Baltimore's Safe Deposit & Trust Co. went Tobacco-Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, just 28, to sign a few papers, claim his $25,000,000 patrimony. Said Heir Reynolds: "It's a lot of money but I can't get excited...