Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Little can lay no claim of merit in anything connected with Michigan's Athletic Plant. One man at Michigan has eaten, breathed, lived and slept Michigan's Athletic Plant for more than a quarter of a century-Fielding H. Yost. To Yost is all credit due. Michigan's Athletic Plant is a living memorial to the athletic and business genius of Fielding H. Yost-long before Little graduated from Harvard College Fielding H. Yost was dreaming, planning and working out Michigan University's present Athletic Plant. It is not finished yet, but every...
...union miners sought to prevent four "blacklegs" (scabs) from working, but were dispersed by a police charge and clubbing. The incident was as far as possible from being typical, since nearly all the 200,000 unemployed miners are not on strike, but literally begging for work from employers who claim that overproduction and German competition make it unprofitable to operate their mines...
...person could be found whose family had been royal but not regnant, he might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
...regnant." Was a case involving $125,000,000 to be decided by the splitting of a hair? Besides everyone knows that "Papa Friedrich's" son, the Archduke Albrecht (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), is one of several pretenders to the vacant Throne of Hungary. How preposterous, then, is any claim that the Archducal estates should not have been confiscated...
...retired to deliberate, last week, there was suspense even in Manhattan. For Chairman of the Board Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. is well known to have advanced some of his privy cash to "Papa Friedrich," years ago, on the sporting security of the Archduke's claim to be non-regnant. The late Frank A. Munsey also took a little flier in what might be called "Papa Friedrich Preferred...