Word: claimants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money. Professional wrestlers in the U. S. are segregated, for similar reasons, into three loosely organized troupes. Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos...
...Claimant to the honor of having thought of the block-aid plan was not Wilton Lloyd-Smith, but an automobile accessory dealer of Buffalo, N. Y. named David Pasternak. To Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror Mr. Pasternak last month submitted proof that he had inaugurated the idea in November 1930. Buffalo's plan gives the head of one destitute family in each block $15 per week for removing snow, sweeping sidewalks, clipping lawns. Among the 40 other cities where Block-Aid is now in practice are Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, N. Y., Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland...
...Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using the waiver. Predictable Miss...
...Chicago last week Judge Philip L. Sullivan made a decision which favored neither Claimant McKay nor Claimant Zimmerman. Judge Sullivan decided that the song originated with Jesse Brown, a Chicago lawyer, who argued that he wrote it ten years ago while an undergraduate orchestra leader at Northwestern University. The court ordered Vallee to give Lawyer Brown an accounting of his "Vagabond" royalties...
...sixth pastor, there stands the twenty foot obelisk intended by the class of 1828 to mark his resting place. It is the most imposing memorial the "Phipps St. Burying Ground" possesses, crowning the knoll and attracting visitors up the single path, Harvard Ave., to investigate the name of the claimant to such relative magnificence. Every Memorial Day witnesses the press of scores of people to the central eminence, whence they may enter into a spirit of the services held at the base of this monument. It is the subject of considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years...