Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be difficult to find in the writings of any two religious leaders greater differences in premise and conclusion than in those of Swedenborg and Mrs. Eddy. . . . The claim that this daughter of an almost fanatical member of the Congregational Church was sent to Sunday School at a Swedenborgian church, or even that there was such a church in either of the tiny New Hampshire villages where she grew to womanhood, is as ridiculous as it is untrue...
...League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots of the Ualual Incident (TIME, Dec. 24), but shall not discuss the real issue of whether Ualual is in Italian Somaliland, as Italians claim, or in Ethiopia, as Ethiopians maintain. While this is going on Italy, France and Britain will negotiate about Ethiopia among themselves and totally outside the League of Nations on the basis of their Treaty of 1906, unrecognized by Ethiopia and said to provide for the division of Ethiopia into "zones of influence" among...
...trustees asked $55,000 each. Judge Nields allowed one $18,000, the other $12,500. The third trustee asked $110,000, was granted $27,500. Highest claim was made by a Manhattan lawyer named Jacob S. Demov, who had already received $25,000 as associate counsel to the trustees. In addition he asked...
...year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...
Found shot dead in a Detroit park was Howard Carter Dickinson, 52, nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's wife. Attorney Dickinson had gone from New York to Detroit to investigate a young woman's claim against the $40,000,000 Yawkey (lumber) estate. After four days' search, Detroit police produced William Schweitzer, underworldling, and three dance-hall girls who told of having been with Lawyer Dickinson on a two-day drinking party culminating in a hold-up and the shooting...