Word: claiming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fourths of July in history, and all the alarm clocks in the world going off at once. But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show. Lena still wanders up & down the aisles calling for Oscar, the little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying to get out. By now, however, these whimsies have acquired a kind of historical importance, have become authentic bits of Americana like the Katzenjammer Kids and Charlie McCarthy...
...borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch is that SEC must approve NY PA NJ's passing any part of the loan upstream...
Dressed in a faultless blue suit with a white carnation in his buttonhole, pearl spats and ascot tie, he strode into court, announced thai! he had come to settle the whole affair by paying out of his own pocket Mrs. Brown's $6,500 claim, her $6,000 lawyer's fee. A gratifying uproar filled the court...
...with ruffled plumage. This time he was not gloriously alone: he was accompanied by his wife, Essie, orchids on her shoulder. To an attentive courtroom, which included 50 Divine angels, the colonel related how 15 other angels had come to him the night before, asked him to settle alleged claims against Father Divine. It would take "about $50,000," he dismally explained. "My conscience would not allow me to pay one claim unless I paid them all." With a giveaway glance at Essie: "My family wouldn't even consider that...
...once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...