Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your March 9 issue in the Miscellany column you credit Tamworth, N. H. with only six inhabitants all over 90. The original article stated that Tamworth had six inhabitants over 90 and all active. We lay claim to having more than six residents, in fact have 40 pupils in our high school and none of these includes the six mentioned...
...Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels). Plaintiff Smith had sued for $250,000 balm, got $12,600 out of court...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...
Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...