Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Sinclair had just launched EPIC* and Sheridan Downey-though he did not claim to be another Old Bob La Follette-had contracted a social itch, had to do something about Depression I. He and Upton Sinclair sat down, talked for seven days. No stenographer took down their scintillating exchanges, but Downey says now that he disagreed with Sinclair's absolute faith in production-for-use, clung then to the profit system, blamed excess savings† rather than excess profits for drying up the economic well. He says he just sympathized with Author Sinclair's objectives...
...establishing violated international law. Force the withdrawal of the invader. Restore to us our trampled-on rights as the legitimate Government. In a few months, perhaps in a few weeks, peace will come spontaneously." In short, without foreign intervention and with belligerent rights granted to the Government, the Leftists claim they could soon lick Generalissimo Franco...
Considering that he is a New Dealer, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas now has fairly good repute in Wall Street. Year and a half ago, however, he could justly claim to be the Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced a caustic tirade which suggested the entire reshaping of investment banking and left his hearers speechless with fury. Among tart Bill Douglas' minor suggestions was that investment trusts take a larger role in underwriting...
...Reynolds) reaction is the usual one for a person who confuses liberal attitudes toward current political and economic affairs with a Communist attitude," he said. "There is of course no basis for the statement Dr. Einstein is a Communist, nor is there any foundation for the claim universities are hotbeds of communism...
PARIS--Nearly 6,000,000 war veterans who claim to control more than half of France's voting strength tonight swung behind leftist leader Henri Pinchet's demand for a "national salvation" government which would rule until 1940 with virtually dictatorial powers