Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly think TIME can claim to be "on its toes" in the Cinema column. So we beg you to fear nothing. When Cinema officials encourage cinema directors to muckrake sewers for ideas give your critics a free hand to tell...
That was clear enough. No one had any doubt that "a naval expert" was William B. Shearer and "three shipbuilding corporations" were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., American Brown Boveri Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., whom Mr. Shearer has sued for a balance of $257,655 on a claim of $308,885 for propaganda services (TIME, Sept...
...Barlow was. Only too 'familiar was he with the long-standing controversies between Joseph E. Barlow, 67, U. S. citizen, 30 years a resident of Havana, and the Cuban Government. Only too well did he know that Mr. Barlow has been pressing a nine-million-dollar claim which has caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish...
Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...
...collected stamps for about 30 years without ever being in any way connected with any stamp association or club . . . which entitles me to the claim of being fairly modest as a stamp collector?up to April 1922, when I became the owner of the world's rarest stamp. . . . The outcome of all this notoriety is that I have had thousands of letters offering stamps of all kinds...