Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue at stake was which way Pennsylvania, apparently the pivotal delegation, should vote for the next Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. Since the Majority Leader always can claim to be the next Speaker, and since Speaker William Bankhead is not a well man, the Leadership of the next Congress is doubly important to the man who gets it and to the Administration...
...Seattle, a Thanksgiving Day crowd of 40,000 saw University of Washington, clinching its claim to the Pacific Coast Conference championship, roll up its biggest score in 34 games (40-10-0) against Washington State. First two touchdowns and the last were made by Sophomore Fullback Albert Cruver. One each went to Byron Haines and Jim Cain, spark-plugs of the Washington backfield since the season's start. Another touchdown rewarded one of the year's trickiest plays-a lateral from Nowogroski to Cain, who forwarded to Dick Johnson. Next day, after a secret poll to pick...
...year ago Southern Methodist v. Texas Christian was as good a game as any for claim to the U. S. championship. Last week at Dallas, it was still a major game, but only for the Southwest Conference title, to which Texas Christian's claim was weakened...
...borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...Their mother waited 40 years for their insane father Prince Francisco of Bourbon-Sicily to die before she married her lover Sir Basil in 1924 only to die 17 months later. Up in London popped a 67-year-old shoemaker, Hyram Barnett Zaharoff to contest the will and claim he is Sir Basil's son "by an early marriage in Russia...