Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underlying security holders some $87,000,000 in bonds of a new P. R. T. The Mayor protested that the "underliers" had already collected $250,000,000 in rentals, that their securities had a market value of not more than $30,000,000 and that they did not even claim a total investment of more than $53,000,000. Although the bond interest would not be as great as lease payments, the Mayor nevertheless thought that interest payments would exhaust operating profits. "You will be left," he told the employe-stockholders, "with scraps of paper." At that the audience cheered...
...primary. And from Washington onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot announced that he had advised Senator Borah "not to go into the fight for delegates" in Pennsylvania "for the reason that more money would be required than is available." "Kansas Coolidge." Managers of Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas now claim that their candidate will go to the Republican National Convention at Cleveland in June with at least 182 pledged votes. Last week Governor Landon took the occasion of the festivities at Topeka commemorating 75 years of Kansas Statehood to deliver his most pretentious address to date on national issues...
...Honorable Mr. Henry P. Fletcher, in releasing his letters to the press, in his continued insistance that Mr. Paley is neither honest nor independent, (despite the fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...
...Angeles, a municipal court ruled that the Strand Theatre pay $400 to the winner of a Bank Night prize who had failed to claim it in the specified three minutes, although he had been in the Strand Theatre at the time the prize was announced...
...packed houses. It evades most State lottery laws because the patron does not pay for his number and may conceivably win the prize without buying a ticket to the theatre, by waiting outside while the winning number is announced by a loudspeaker in the lobby, then running in to claim his prize...