Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime residents thought that they knew one explanation: Japan by treaty rights is a member of the International Settlement at Shanghai, whose neutrality is theoreti cally protected by the guns of half-a-dozen foreign powers. During the 1932 siege Japanese warships would calmly attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood to let Japan repeat this particular performance. To protect...
Last week Warner Brothers released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. It is also one of the best shows. The Life of Emile Zola has an even greater claim to the attention of adult cinemaddicts because its star, Paul Muni, having won last March the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' award for the most distinguished performance of 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur), can be considered, at least until next March, the First Actor of the U.S. Screen...
...option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three other directors were found liable for more than $2,000,000. "Tony" Biddle in 1935 compromised his claim and sailed off to become the New Deal's Minister to Norway. The judgment against Hammond stood at $1,838,755. He pointed out that he could not pay the sum from his father's estate because it was held in trust. After questioning the elder Hammond...
...Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present price of radium is $25 per milligram, $25,000 per gram, $700,000 per ounce. Mrs. Bishop suspected for years that she had radium ore on her property, kept it quiet until her claim was cleared in the courts. Last week the excited little woman did not know just how extensive her deposit was, but she and her lawyers laid plans for a thorough survey and hoped to write a new chapter in the shifting course of world radium production...
...wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...