Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowance of such a plea would make it possible for the owner of a gambling establishment or bawdy house to claim immunity from prosecution and the right to continue in such illegal business upon proof of its operation for a number of years without interference by the police...
...Knoxville, having exhibited great delicacy by waiting until the primary was over, the Congressional committee investigating TVA announced it would review the queer-looking claim suit lost by Senator Berry against TVA for an alleged fortune in marble drowned under the waters of Norris Dam. During his campaign, rich Senator Berry had continued to protest his claims were valid, not chiseling. Cried he: "I was in the marble business long before there was a TVA or a President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...quarrel with his neighbor dates from the 1932 campaign, when Squire Roosevelt began publicly calling his mother's house "Krum Elbow." After election the U. S. Geodetic Survey hastily named it so on official maps. Mr. Spencer insisted that his family place had always borne that name, a claim which the President's mother supported. The real name of the Roosevelt estate, says Mr. Spencer grimly, is "Crooks' Delight," after a British merchant who once owned...
Included were no less than 15 pension plans. Strongest was the "California State Retirement Life Payments Act," whose proponents claim over 800,000 signatures, boast that their plan has overshadowed Townsendism in its original stronghold. CSRLP would provide $30 every Thursday for every unemployed qualified voter over 50 who has lived a year in California. The money would be payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled...
...said she was Mrs. Grace T. Hoyt gave the body a regulation burial and went home to wait for her slice of Hoyt's $20,000 estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about professional ethics. Documents were produced which showed that the Wilsons...