Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Candidate Walsh arraigned Senator Robinson of Indiana, who last month tried to connect Candidate Smith with Oilman Sinclair. "The Governor of New York," said the Senator from Montana, "is an extraordinary man in many particulars. Even calumny has not dared to assert that he is not an honest man. . . . The Governor of New York needs no defense from me. Nor does he require any defense . . . from...
...form the measure had been shorn of provisions to create a French monopoly of oil vending in France. Deputy Pioqemal, pounding his desk, demanded to know why these provisions had been knocked out. Answering his own question he cried: "I assert that the Cabinet has received and heeded an injunction from America forbidding the monopoly which the people of France have been promised over their oil imports...
...American Football Coaches' Association has become somewhat smugly arrogant. "There is still plenty of room for the development of football," said Major John L. Griffln at the annual banquet of the association arguing from the increase in college population and the abundance of money. And he went on to assert that "even if football were not fun, it would be worthwhile as a check on the danger of the growth of America becoming weak and fiabby...
Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...fomented antagonism against Mexico by statements made in European capitals. She has criticized the Mexican Constitution and the structure of laws based thereon. She has declared that some day downtrodden Mexican women will rise and assert themselves. Just now she is safely out of Mexico but Mexican indignation still runs high against Mme. Alexandria Kollontay...