Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Harvard has been pre-eminent for many decades for the excellence of her legal instruction, she can no longer lay claim to a position of unrivalled superiority. Both Yale and Columbia have made justifiable names for themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time...
...Jersey have special commissions studying the subject. The political science department of the University of Nebraska has had over 4,000 letters of inquiry on it. But the other 47 States are more than likely to wait until they see whether Nebraska's experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check to prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto...
British public opinion will now be educated by its press as to the Italy of today and the significance of Fascism as a movement Conservative in the British sense. The claim of Italian social workers that "nowhere in the world is labor so well-protected as in Italy under the Fascist regime" is being comfortably noised this week in England. The Fascist maternity aid, child-training centres, workmen's sport fields and theatres, public works such as motor roads, reclamation of marsh lands, building of new cities, construction of transatlantic liners, excavations of noble Roman ruins, and colonization...
...much credit was taken for the bombing and almost total destruction of a city called Weinan, 45 miles from Sian, scene of the kidnapping. It was contended that the frightful destruction of Chinese lives and property in Weinan had intimidated the kidnappers in Sian. Exactly the opposite was the claim of Australian "Adviser" William H. Donald, who had advised both the Kidnapper and the Kidnappee in Sian and holds a most ambiguous position. He claimed that the Government bombers, but for heavy fog and snow over Sian during an entire week, would have dropped bombs with indiscriminate abandon all over...
...Daugherty was by no means the only outsider who laid claim to the Kettleman Kitty. As far back as 1910 Ochsner had been wildcatting on the public domain around Kettleman. Ghosts from this early period arose in the courts by droves. Some 50 people from around Fresno, Calif., known as the Morrow Group, sued for 50% on the ground that they helped Ochsner assemble the claims. Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%. An Ochsner wildcatting promotion called Medallion Oil Co., which lost $100,000 for number of Wall Streeters including Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch, sued not only...