Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor meet in convention-the American Federation of Labor at Cincinnati, the Congress of Industrial Organizations at San Francisco. In the 59th year of A. F. of L., the fourth year of C. I. O., the two in sum are bigger and stronger than ever. Between them they claim 8,000,000 members, or about one in five U. S. workers. As the largest organized economic minorities in the U. S., they have an enormous stake in the democracy in which they live, a corresponding duty to the People of whom they are part. This week, after their fashions, they...
...This I ask: If forty-six million Englishmen claim the right to rule over forty million square kilometers of the earth, it cannot be wrong for eighty-two million Germans to demand the right to live on 800,000 square kilometers, to till their fields and to follow their trades and callings, and if they further demand the restitution of those colonial possessions which formerly were their property, which they had not taken away from anybody by robbery or war but honestly acquired by purchase, exchange and treaties. Moreover, in all my demands, I always first tried to obtain revisions...
...Conant seems to believe that this reduction was made necessary by budgetary exigencies. But any such claim carries no weight at all when it is seen that, by salary readjustments in the permanent ranks--or merely by advancing these men to permanent positions with the same salaries which they held before--as many of the ten as were urgently needed could have been made associate professors and retained permanently...
Communist circles claim that they can not come out in the open with their activities because they expect the United States to be at war shortly, and they would then be persecuted if their identity were known. They also charge that the University discriminates against members of the Young Communist League
...Editor-in-Chief Hans Fritsche of the Nazi broadcasting services frothed at the mouth in German for 13 minutes over the German air replying to Mr. Churchill's claim of a scoreless week for the U-boats. Excerpt...