Word: claimants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland up swelled last week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
...Another claimant to authorship of The Prisoner's Song was Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
Unlike the heavyweight boxing championship (see p. 34), the heavyweight wrestling championship changes hands so rapidly that most of the time no one really knows who has it. Last week in Los Angeles. 25.000 wrestling addicts watched the newest claimant to the title, Dave...
Preacher. Up to the microphones broad-shouldered, coatless, clutching a Bible in his left hand, stepped the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, claimant to the leadership of 6,000,000 Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
Compensation must be reasonable. Most of the claims rendered were for the performance of useful and legitimate services but only in a few instances did Judge Coxe agree with the claimant's estimate of what those services were worth. Thus it was admitted that Cook, Nathan & Lehman, attorneys for the stockholders' committee, were "responsible in large measure for the fact that the stockholders' rights have been preserved." But where Cook, Nathan & Lehman claimed $250,000, Judge Coxe allowed them $115,000. Similarly Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, attorneys for the receivers and trustees, specified that partners...