Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other $500 will come later. I understand that Senator Borah offered an amendment to cut out all salaries over $6,000 but did not get to first base.Now it is possible and probable that some veterans are in want, but it would be a brave man who would claim that any political jobholder is actually suffering for necessities...
...country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have buried $45,000 of "the queer" along with its engraving plates, the identity of the curiously assorted prisoners was made known...
...girl's age, according to official school records, is 12, not 11; her date of birth was June 17, 1921. Her family are wealthy, but can hardly claim to be "aristocrats among Creeks" in any other sense, for they are not leaders or prominent people in the tribe. The McClish boy is an orphan, so his parents did not "readily give consent" to the marriage. His guardian objected, and would have preferred to have him punished by imprisonment for his act, but the girl's representative's reached the judge first and obtained the marriage order...
...Harvard-where Franklin Roosevelt had been before him -when John Jacob Astor escorted his wife (Vincent's stepmother) to a life boat on the deck of the Titanic, tipped his cap and stepped back among the crowd to meet his Maker. Vincent went to Halifax to claim his father's body, returning, not to Harvard, but to Manhattan. Then & there he graduated to man's estate, although it was several months before his 21st birthday. It became his job to manage the $63,000,000 worth of real estate which his father left, mostly...
...True Cross, which was evidently made of pine, Paris' Notre Dame, Rome's St. Peter's and Santa Croce and a monastery at Reichenau, Germany each claim large fragments. The Three Nails, according to Catholic authorities, are represented today by some 30 enshrined at Rome, Venice, Aix-la-Chapelle, Madrid, Trier, Nuremberg, Prague, Paris, Milan and Monza. A lance thought to be the one with which Longinus, Roman centurion, pierced Christ's side while he hung on the cross, is preserved at St. Peter's. Unduplicated anywhere outside of St. Peter's is Veronica...