Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McBurney of Long Beach, Calif., ordered an investigation by the Solicitor General. McBurney, aged 72, died last December leaving $1,000 each to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, cut off his six children with $1 each. An attorney for the children requested both big beneficiaries to waive their claim. No reply had last week been received from Legatee Stalin, but it was indicated that Legatee Roosevelt would yield...
...145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...
...autonomy will probably raise protest from Philippine capital, but there is no possible doubt that if they are to leave our control, they must accept the same treatment as any other foreign nation. Imperialists in this country will decry the losing of our Far East naval bases. They will claim that such action makes a possible Japanese attack probable. While there is some truth in their fears, the effect on the whole would be to withdraw the United States from the tangled intrigues of Oriental diplomacy, at once lessening the chance of war. As for the moral trembling lest...
...standards set up by its own sponsors. The Chicago Daily News last week featured the charge of failure in a front page editorial on "the practical collapse of NRA as a Universal Panacea for industrial depression." Three prime reasons were advanced: 1) NRA is legally beaten, a premature claim. For six months the Federal Government has artfully dodged any such ordeal by law. The only immediate test in sight resulted from a decision by a Federal court in Texas exempting local oil producers, not signers of the oil code, from code supervision because they were not engaged in interstate commerce...
...immediately be raised, which is highly likely, Mr. Bingham suggests that the present Varsity Boat House be sold, and the money used for upkeep until the endowment be raised. This boat house is situated on a point said to be a fine site for an inn, and conservative estimates claim that it would bring $15,000 as it stands, which would enable the remainder of Red Top to continue its activity until money had been raised to fund its yearly upkeep. The Variety crew would be quartered in the Freshman house, and the Freshman would be forced to row their...