Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...other interests range from slot machines in Los Angeles to horse racing in Mexico. At the time they met Yordan, in the spring of '43, they had already made a couple of pic tures. Though they had realized a respect able profit, they did not receive the ac claim they had somehow expected. Their deal: Yordan would contribute "class" and a third of the money; in return they would give Yordan all the freedom he wanted (all there is), and 'a one-third share of the business. Result: between King Bros, and Lucasta, Yordan makes not far short...
...Major also loses sight of the fact that management, more often than not, is not doing all that can be done to increase production where increases are needed, that faulty management more than strikes has caused shortages, in spite of what the press says and what the advertisements claim...
...captured government property belongs to the government whose troops seize it. But, in 1943, the U.S. and 16 other United Nations promised to return any recovered German loot to the original owners. Some of the gold may have come from Belgium, Czechoslovakia. The Italians, who probably have no legal claim under the declaration, thought the cache might contain some of the 119-ton gold reserve filched from Rome by retreating Germans...
...mine at Merkers, U.S. soldiers came upon the comely queen. The painted limestone head was buried in a debris of art objects and gold bars cached in the mine by nervous Nazis. Waiting only long enough to confirm the news, the newly belligerent Egyptian Government filed its first war claim: hand over Nefertete...