Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young points to Cleveland rumors that they are minions of J. P. Morgan & Co. because Morgan's lent them sufficient money last summer to buy Cleveland's Higbee department store. To prove that "Guaranty Trust Co. has utilized, subverted and abused its fiduciary position as trustee," he claims C. & O.'s present management has shown its worth by its success, that his simplification plans would benefit Alleghany bondholders, that Guaranty's claim to impartiality was exploded when it rejected as possible "impartial" directors for Chesapeake such bigwigs proposed by Young as Pan American Airways' Juan...
Fortunately, "The Women," presented by Max Gordon at the Colonial, is not the cross-section of American womanhood that many claim it to be. It is good, not particularly clean, comedy. Embracing a cast of forty women and presenting the thesis that the fair sex has just one thing on its mind, the play tries more to amuse than convince...
...Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that in two years in the Army his dice had netted him $2,000. Vina did not testify about her previous experience. Solomonwise, the board last week allowed Eugene's claim, disallowed Vina's. Said Eugene: "Well, what can you think of it?" Said Vina: "It was a great fight and we won. Or didn...
...charges against Republic Steel simply alleged unfair labor practices. The union did not claim to represent a majority of the workers and the board said nothing about a contract. It ordered the corporation to stop interfering with self-organization of its workers, to disestablish its company unions, to offer reinstatement with back pay to all the estimated 5,000 strikers and to discharge other employes hired after the strike if necessary to make room for them, to post notices of compliance in the five plants affected for 60 days...
...that someone has skimped in his tax report. If the evidence seems reasonable, field agents inspect questionable records, interview the suspected offender, notify the proper tax division (income, estate, gift, etc.). When a suspect is found guilty and forced to pay up, the informer fills out a neatly printed claim blank and passes it on for certification by a tax collector, the U. S. District Attorney, the Revenue Commissioner. His reward, which varies with the value of his information and the amount of help he gives in recovering the taxes, averages 2½% of the sum recovered...