Word: claimants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo, members of the Japanese Whiskers Club held their semi-annual meeting, toasted Naosaburo Kato (left, in cut), claimant to the title of Longest Beard in the Orient...
...into water hazards ("unfair"). They get 50 to 100 claims a year for balls lost in ordinary play, and they pay these "unfair" claims as well as fair claims unless they suspect fraud. Some companies, however, get so mad about "unfair" claims that they will not renew a claimant's policy...
...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Nedayr: the $35,000 Arlington. Classic (for three-year-old thoroughbreds); defeating among others the co-favorites, Stagehand and Menow; at Chicago's Arlington Park. By his victory, Nedayr, a 14-to-1 shot, became the latest claimant to the evanescent three-year-old championship...
...nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty. One claimant had given birth to three stillborn children. Five of another woman's children were not products of wedlock. To these two maternal runners-up went $12,500 each as consolation prizes to insure against further litigation. Still left in the Millar till were assets worth about $75,000, which...
...over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan last week reasserted that the lands had been surveyed by TVA experts and found to contain no marble of commercial value, that Directors Harcourt Morgan & Lilienthal nevertheless tried to have a conciliator to decide...