Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemp-Carpenter reorganization plan was to get Pacific Mutual out from under its disability obligations. All other types of policies were immediately reinsured by the new company at the original rates, but the holders of noncancelable disability policies were told they had only two alternatives: 1) to file a claim with the California Insurance Commissioner or 2) to reinsure their policies in the new company at the original rates and accept benefit reductions ranging up to 80%. However claims now being paid under these policies would not be affected by the change...
...taste and when there was virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history is not only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished them, to study the men who created them, to summon up what was good in that society for its measure of guidance...
...that the book is not "original" in the usual sense of the term so much as it is a beautifully-conceived mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay, "for every phrase" in its 537 pages, is testimony of his creative scholarship...
...believe that I express the opinion of many of those active in the world of sports when I say that President Roosevelt has established a claim to our support. Now that his splendid courage and remarkable vision have started the country well on its way to better times, these men and women will be only too eager to get out and work for his election. Baseball, tennis, racing, boxing and all other sports are again drawing record crowds and Roosevelt is the answer." Thus last week did onetime fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, who thinks it is funny to burn...
...mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...