Word: disclaiming
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...fought Imperial Russia during the World War, sometimes under their own ensign, sometimes as units-but always distinct units-in the hospitable armies of Imperial Austria. Today such old campaigners as Josef Stalin and Josef Pilsudski can understand each other even hough their dictatorships are different. Both, of course, disclaim being dictators. Comrade Stalin says he is only the Secretary of the Communist Party. Marshal Pilsudski is only War Minister-but both tell their countrymen what to do and are obeyed. Last week Dictator Pilsudski was so pleased by Dictator Stalin's gift that he agreed...
...much as I appreciate the compliment that I have "placed the junk business on a dignified plane," it has proved embarrassing because I would be the first to disclaim any such distinction or accomplishment...
...plenty of theoretical argument against branchbanking. There is also much sentiment against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week the trend...
...Charles Schuveldt Dewey (Yale 1904) changed his address from U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C., to Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways...
...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...