Word: counterclaimed
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...they scurried into the political badlands to handclasp, speechify, claim and counterclaim. Into North Carolina and West Virginia scurried Thomas E. Dewey; into Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama stumped Robert Taft. In Missouri and Nebraska, Wendell Willkie quietly gathered in delegates that his rivals had counted on as safe in their own bags. The newest Gallup poll showed him second in popularity among Republican voters, upped him from 10% to 17% in two weeks' time (Dewey lost 4%, but was still far in the lead with...
...where the Welles mission was the biggest story of the week, journalists went in for some superlatives of their own. Headline of the week flared across the pages of the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, with a counterclaim dwarfing Hitler's as much as Hitler's dwarfed Bismarck's - "Roosevelt," headlined the Post, "Wants to Dictate Peace and Become President of World...
Fortnight ago began the Board of Tax Appeals hearings on: 1) the Government's claim for $3,075,103 in back taxes and penalties, based on a charge that Mr. Mellon had deliberately cheated in his 1931 income tax return; 2) Mr. Mellon's counterclaim for a $139,045 refund on that return, based on an assertion that he had not reported all his philanthropies. Last week spry Counsel Hogan's chief job was to tackle government counsel as it attempted to dart out of bounds on what looked like purely grandstand plays. Once the Government...
...Chamber of Deputies one Louis Marin, Deputy, made a five-hour speech. Some of the things he said in urging that France had a counterclaim against her creditors...
...difficulties of settling with Russia is the legacy of Lloyd George. He levied war upon Russia, and Russia is putting in a counterclaim upon us. Some of Lloyd George's acts are still having a serious effect upon the international affairs of Europe...