Word: award
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...regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under a 1929 treaty, for injuries suffered in international flights (unless the claimant proves willful misconduct). The House of Representatives voted last August to award Singer Froman $138,205 and Accordionist Markoff $33,236 for their wartime catastrophes. Last week Gypsy, at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, asked Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver to raise the amounts; Jane was laid up after her 31st operation. Said Gypsy to the Keef: "My hand feels...
Connecticut Businessman Tunney and said: "I'm happy to share this award with Gene-and I'd be just as happy, if need be, to share my last dollar with...
...laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association's award for coverage of local government...
TIME'S choice for Man of the Year is no moral award. The criterion: who, for better or worse, dominated the news of the year...
...been guilty of negligence "under the conditions prevailing at the time." Even though they protested that the law of warranty as spelled out for them by the judge was "extremely harsh," they voted 11 to 1(a majority of nine would have been enough under California law) to award damages on this score: $131,500 to the Gottsdankers and $15,800 to the Phippses. As Cutter's attorneys got set to appeal, 44 others claiming to be victims of Cutter vaccine prepared to press suits totaling about...