Word: claimants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...
Starting with the 500-meter swim, the Californian shattered every time up to the mile. Medica is the holder of four world's records and the claimant of another four, and in addition is the national collegiate title holder in the 220-yard, 440-yard, and the 1500-meter events...
Traction. From 1904 to 1913 Washington's Capital Traction Co. (street railways) lost each & every personal injury suit in which the claimant was represented by Frank J. Hogan. In 1913 Capital Traction Co. hired Frank J. Hogan as its general counsel, has kept him ever since. Two years later the whole nation heard about him. Accused by the Government of trading in securities in violation of the National Banking Act was Washington's famed old Riggs National Bank, where every President from Buchanan to Wilson kept his personal funds. To secure an injunction against government interference the bank...
...fellow-Christians, he never got farther than Cyprus. There he brought off his most dangerous coup by eloping with the Princess Xene, captive of Richard Coeur de Lion. Xene was the daughter of a deposed Emperor of New Rome (Constantinople), so the son she bore Peire Vidal was a claimant to the throne. In New Rome disaster finally overtook Troubadour Vidal. In the sack of the city by the Crusaders (1204) his wife and son were killed and he lost his reason. Years later, when he was about to be put to death as a heretic, in spite...