Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked him to address them at Pasadena's high-hat Huntington Hotel last week, Beck (perhaps not knowing they had first failed to get eleven less controversial capitalists, among them Studebaker's Paul Hoffman and Lockheed's Robert Gross) was proud and happy to oblige. "I contend," said Beck, "that we are in a very serious recession. Ten weeks ago, I stated that the auto industry was in a terrible condition. Everybody said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal came out with an article about the trouble...
Meanwhile Health and Dental School men who favor fluoridation claim in letter to the press that Williams has no scientific justification for his stand. In additions, they contend that among enlightened health men he is virtually alone in opposing the measure...
...Proxies for 2,095,996 shares (besides the 1,262,120 shares owned by Hughes) were sent in to the special meeting and 2,022,769 voted in favor of the plan, only 73,227 against. The only barrier remaining was a court suit filed by two stockholders who contend that Hughes is getting too big a bargain in buying the rest of the RKO stock for $15,916,758, if all the stockholders sell. Since the stock was selling at only $2.87½before Hughes made his offer, there will probably be few holdouts. Once the suit...
...there was solid evidence at that time establishing that White was engaged in espionage activity, certainly no one would contend that sound and proper administration required his advancement or even continuance in Government service simply because a criminal conviction could not be obtained...
...Americans tend to be loose constructionist and socially optimistic. They contend that God works partly through human history, and that Christians, through their active corporate witness, must help improve their world. The two points of view are not mutually exclusive, although sometimes it would seem...