Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merits or faults of a coach as they affect his continuance in office, are matters for the employer, the H.A.A., and dissatisfaction fostered by a carping press is not the best encouragement for him. While holding his position, he has a claim to the support of the undergraduates, which should be recognized. The graduates, however much they may fill up the Stadium, are an unorganized body. If they are the ones who are dissatisfied, the press should consider their cause and refrain from idle talk about "dissatisfaction at Harvard...
...advantage come to the greatest number of citizens from their government. Many a shrewd, honest and successful Manhattanite maintains close Tammany connections. Unanimously, this Tammany type deplores the bad management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim, is due to the unfortunate personality and training of John Francis Curry. When Curry was a young ward heeler on the West Side he worked for a telegraph company instead of tending bar, as did most incipient Tammany officials. Lacking that broadening experience, he was suddenly shoved into the Leader...
...give this [Germany's] claim [to equality] documentary form," he continued in ringing tones, "I decided to beg the Reich President to dissolve the Reichstag and give the German people opportunity for making an historic affirmation. . . . May the world, from such an affirmation, gain the conviction that the German people, in this battle for equality and honor, declare itself completely at one with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked...
...heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard...
Through an original investment of $5,100,000 Dillon, Read thus controlled $90,000,000 of capital. The little wheels ran by the grace of God, but the big wheels ran for Dillon, Read. Since the two preferred stocks had only a fixed claim against assets ($100 a share), the liquidating value of International's common went up much faster than the securities International owned and so did Foreign...