Word: claimants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fraud, any way you look at it, if you set up a trust and people buy an interest and can't get their money." But Christine is not giving up. Her lawyers are considering an appeal on the ruling, and they also were suggesting last week that each claimant may have to prove his case individually. Since some of the 700 shareholders have died and passed their claims on to their inheritors, the proceedings could stretch toward infinity. Meanwhile, until matters are cleared up, the entire inheritance is being held by the Detroit Bank & Trust Co., and so Christine...
...young Manhattan lawyer, John Marshall Harlan advised a colleague elated over disproving 21 of 23 assertions made by an opposition claimant to forgo celebration. It would be better, said Harlan, to nail down the discrepancies in the remaining two points. The thoroughness of the lawyer became the hallmark of the Supreme Court Justice. Harlan's death of spinal cancer last week at age 72, following his retirement in September, ended a 16-year career as one of the most notable professional craftsmen ever to serve on the Supreme Court...
...moonfaced, high-voiced claimant of the papal tiara is a former Roman Catholic priest who was defrocked by Pius XII in 1951 for founding, without permission, an order called the Apostles of Infinite Love. In 1960, says Collin, the Virgin of Fatima told the local bishop that the next Pope would be called Clement XV. The bishop told the Vatican, Collin says...
Marshall said this was true even if the objection to a particular war has "roots in a claimant's conscience and personality that is 'religious' in character...
...during the 1940s and '50s. Both are Swedish, proving that national style has nothing to do with nationality. Since the death of Leonard Warren in 1960, no one man has been acknowledged by critics and conductors as the quintessential Italian Baritone. Now, though, there may be a legitimate claimant to the title. Like Warren and Lawrence Tibbett before him, he too is an American: Sherrill Milnes, of Downers Grove...