Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen Jacobs, the U. S. No. 1, the afternoon before. Miss Jacobs promptly put the U. S. back at a disadvantage by losing to Dorothy Round, then promised "a nice present" to Carolin Babcock if she could win against Ruth Mary Hardwick. Carolin Babcock did so, ran up to claim her present. Instead of producing one, Miss Jacobs got up to take the court with Mrs. Fabyan for the doubles match against Freda James & Kay Stammers which would end the series. The English pair ran through the first set, 6-1. Mrs. Fabyan's shrewd lobs counted...
...cannot subscribe to the view that the monopolistic tendencies which had official sanction from 1920 to 1932 were conducive to prosperity, and we cannot subscribe to the view of those New Dealers who claim that their experiments in monopoly, restriction and centralized political power are in the interests of an abundant life...
...halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons scene the Prime Minister, after trying to bluff "The Deal" through with the claim that if only his lips could be unsealed its virtues would be clear (TIME, Dec. 23), finally did a public reverse and spurned "The Deal." Promptly Sir Samuel Hoare insisted on resigning as Foreign Secretary and was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, of whom the Prime Minister later said...
...trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this respectable publishing fortune on the ground that Mrs. Nieman was of unsound mind when her testament was drawn...
...finally went too far, was arrested and put behind the bars, Jimmy seized his chance and went off with Juana. After she had borne him several children he did what he could to legalize her position by marrying her. And he finally risked an appearance in town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that, as far as women were concerned, Jimmy was still a somewhat hard case...