Word: lusitania
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...claims, became a man with a fabulous bankroll. So to Europe. There he met Elinor Glyn.* She was enchanted by "Young Hercules." But nothing came of it and later he took to wife the widow of a Vanderbilt-Mrs. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, whose husband had gone down with the Lusitania...
...Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet...
...trifling matter, but to those who regard TIME as authoritative it should be none the less important. On p. 18 of your issue of Dec. 14 you speak of the Lusitania as having been sunk on "May 17, 1915." Just a printer's slip, no doubt, for the date should...
...Claims. U. S. citizens who suffered War losses (in the sinking of the Lusitania, etc.) have claims against Germany which the peace treaty declared should be adjudicated by a mixed claims commission. This has recently been done. The claims allowed amount to something over $200,000,000. These remain unsatisfied. Under the Dawes Plan the U. S. is to get reparations of about 45,000,000 gold marks a year to pay off these claims. But these payments, although supposedly all that Germany can make, are insufficient to pay off the claims...
Following the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on May 17, 1915, some 13,000 claims aggregating $1,500,000,000 have been filed with the Mixed Claims Commission, which has been arbitrating the matter for over three years. Last week the Commission announced at Washington that all U. S. claims had been settled or dismissed, and that to date a total of $167,663,102 has been awarded to complainants. Fifteen hundred miscellaneous claims remain to be settled. The Commissioners: for the U. S., Chandler P. Anderson; for Germany, Wilhelm Kiesselbach; as umpire, Judge Edwin B. Parker...