Word: claimants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another ancient-automobile owner, Lawrence H. Osgood '51, considers his 1929 Packard a leading claimant for the title of "Biggest Old Car" on the campus. It is said to hold...
...once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there was no truth...
...soon as they are crated, the new refrigerators are trucked off to government warehouses, to be picked up at the convenience of the Army, Navy and various claimant agencies of the government. Until the military or the agencies give the word, civilians will have to wait-at least until late fall...
...Requirements Committee, assuming that V-E day will occur "on or before June 30," had asked all claimant agencies (Army, Navy, etc.) to submit within ten days a list of raw materials they will need to finish off Japan...
...East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with the British and Russians in their desire to keep China weak? . . . As we wrest the Pacific islands from Japan at such cost in American blood, do we retain them or return them to the various claimant nations...