) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.

Eichenwald referred to Whitacre's sentence as " excessive and a law enforcement failure " because Whitacre never received credit for his substantial cooperation in assisting the government with the massive price-fixing case.

Nurmi felt that he got too much credit as an athlete and too little as a businessman, but his interest in running never died.

I would never give him the credit to acknowledge him as my father ".

# By tracking who pays, and when, the distributor can see potential problems developing and take steps to reduce or increase the allowed amount of trade credit he extends to prospering or posure to losses from customers going bankrupt who would never pay for the ice cream delivered.

He also directed The Racket, an early gangster film, and later helped Hughes direct scenes for his aviation saga Hell's Angels ( for which he never received credit ).

Death rates were sharply reduced, but she did not recognise hygiene as the predominant cause of death at the time and never claimed credit for helping to reduce the death rate.

Betfair has never accepted customers and / or credit card numbers from the United States.

Unlike Reyes, who had never sung in a studio before and Cadena, who had not even sung at all before joining the band, Rollins already had one recording credit to his name with the short-lived DC hardcore punk band State of Alert, who recorded No Policy, an EP released earlier that year on Dischord Records.

Watch my songs be played in movies and never receive the checks and never get the credit.

Thalberg refused to take credit as producer, and as a result his name never appeared on the screen while he was alive.

From 1711 to 1713, Arbuthnot and Swift formed " The Brothers ' Club ," though Arbuthnot characteristically gave away his ideas and even his writings, never seeking credit for them.

Analysts credit the reason why Eagle never got a foothold in the market was because it did not have unique products.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

Not only did she damage my credit, but she escalated her crimes to a level that I never truly expected: she engaged in drug trafficking.

Although Russell claimed he never read Ridley's script, so as not " to pollute my own idea ", he admits that " John gets credit where it's due.

The rating agencies respond that their advice constitutes only a " point in time " analysis, that they make clear that they never promise or guarantee a certain rating to a tranche, and that they also make clear that any change in circumstance regarding the risk factors of a particular tranche will invalidate their analysis and result in a different credit rating.

* King of the Hill as a judge who hears the case when Hank disputes a credit card charge over nonexistent movies he never ordered

She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic ( 1953 ), playing Millie Owens ( which she never felt received the credit it deserved ) and Bus Stop ( 1955 ), playing Cherie.

The name change also helped to avoid confusion in Ohio with Cleveland-based National City Bank, though the two would never have any significant overlapping areas except for Citi credit cards being issued in the latter National City territory.

Funk, perhaps unfairly, was never given full credit for his work.

Lane remained anonymous as the voice of Mister Ed, and the show's producers referred to him only as " an actor who prefers to remain nameless ," though once the show became a hit, Lane campaigned the producers for credit, which he never received.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

António Noli later claimed the credit.

He claimed to have abhorred Lee Strasberg's teachings: " After I had some success, Lee Strasberg tried to take credit for teaching me how to act.

He would have claimed credit for the sun and the moon if he believed he could get away with it.

Loyd first claimed in 1891 that he invented the puzzle, and he continued until his death a 20 year campaign to falsely take credit for the puzzle.

For example, Dave Rogers, in the book The Prisoner and Danger Man, said that Markstein claimed to have created the concept first and McGoohan later attempted to take credit for it, though Rogers himself doubted that McGoohan would have wanted or needed to do that.

The group also claimed credit for the 2003 bombing of a Palestinian school in Jaba that injured 20 and was thought to be linked to the 2002 Zil Elementary school bombing.

He could afford to be magnanimous ; his private secretary, Sir Francis Knollys, claimed that he was the first heir to succeed to the throne in credit.

For example, the credit card network does not require a personal identification number for authentication of the claimed identity ; and a small transaction usually does not even require a signature of the authenticated person for proof of authorization of the transaction.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

For example, Arthur Berry said that Hooke " claimed credit for most of the scientific discoveries of the time.

Niven later claimed credit for bringing future Major General Sir Robert Laycock to the Commandos.

By the end of 2010, $ 2, 512, 000, 000 of property value had been donated as easements in Virginia for which tax credit was claimed.

Chulalongkorn made reforms for which his former tutor claimed some of the credit, including the abolition of the practice of prostration before the royal person.

Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book Film at Wit's End that Meshes was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit.

ITF taekwondo organizations credit Choi with starting the spread of taekwondo internationally by stationing Korean taekwondo instructors around the world, and have consistently claimed that ITF-style taekwondo is the only authentic style of taekwondo, most notably in early sections of its textbooks.

Following the Titans ' assault on Olympus, Pan claimed credit for the victory of the gods because he had frightened the attackers.

On December 15, Jundallah claimed credit for another attack in the Southeastern city of Chabahar, where two suicide bombs killed at least 39 and wounded more than 100 people.

Some claimed that he took credit for aircraft downed by his squadron or wing.

Contrary to Weller's account, former Washington yell leader Tolly Allen has also claimed credit for the first wave.

Longtime UW band director Bill Bissell also claimed co-creator credit with Weller, suggesting that the wave was devised by both of them prior to the game.

Calvin Trillin stated in his 1980 New Yorker article that a man named John Young also claimed credit for serving chicken wings in a special " mambo sauce ".