Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fontaine Maury Maverick dropped his first name (so he says) as a small boy, riding in a wagon up a steep hill, when the driver told him that unless he thus lightened the load they would never make the grade. Critics of New Deal Congressman Maverick assert he has dropped more than a name, accuse him of throwing over family traditions, party principles, national ideals. A literate legislator, Maury Maverick replies to this wholesale charge in a rambling, engaging, man-to-man discourse on the state of the nation and himself...
...page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide circle: after attempting to show that Captain Kidd was no rope-worthy pirate, he goes on to assert that Kidd's treasure island actually exists, and he knows where...
...assert that I am or was corrupt," the politician stated, "but there was a nasty implication in his words." Commenting on his son's career, he said, "My son was doing well in his class work, and seemed to his father at least to give good promise of one day becoming a successful lawyer." He added that he had advised his son to withdraw from the Law School...
Doctors & Lawyers Sirs: As a student at Northwestern University Law School, I am interested in your new section on Law. In this section in your issue of Feb. 8, P-59, you state the number of lawyers and the number of doctors in the country, and assert that many more people need doctors than lawyers. This is of vital interest to those of us contemplating entering the profession. Would you please send me the references to your sources of these statistics and generalizations. Thank you. Do your figures indicate the medical profession is not overcrowded? HENRY W. DYER Flossmoor...
...matter of fact, I think he refused to appoint Insurgents to committees because he was angry with them on account of their insurgency, which had already started. To assert that the Insurgents were moved by some selfish motive is an absolutely unfounded and unjustifiable charge...