Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Lakes district they claim 84,000 members, new and old, among 200,000 steel workers. While steel firms were combatting their organization drive by granting wage increases, C. I. O. won an unexpected victory when one of their supporters, Elmer J. Maloy of Duquesne, Pa. was elected head of a company union council of Carnegie-Illinois Corp., big subsidiary of U. S. Steel...
Even discounting Mr. Farley's native optimism, the prospects of big Christmas spendings were rosy indeed. Aside from the continuing upward drive of Recovery, there are two good reasons for this rosiness, for both of which Mr. Farley could claim Democratic credit. One is the rising tide of extra dividend declarations, the other the nation-wide movement to raise wages, pay bonuses...
...this mythical title that will be decided by the outcome of tomorrow's clash. By virtue of the Crimson-Tiger tie and the Eli victory last week, the team that fishes a win out of the Bowl will have a right to claim H-Y-P supremacy...
...What other cars might claim to be in the same category as the Phantom III? Only five that I can recall offhand: the latest Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Mercédès-Benz, Packard, and the huge 'golden' type Bugatti...
Trouble between Colonel Schick and Dictograph's Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews began in 1934 after the Chicago World's Fair. Promoter Andrews, who had had permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit...