Word: bequeathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold or rain until a "second" arrived. Many a lad told such hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...
...Oscar Kelly Allen (TIME, Feb. 3), James A. Noe chose as one of his first official acts the appointment of Mrs. Huey Pierce Long to the U. S. Senate vacancy left by the death of her husband. He also promised that the Democratic State Central Committee would promptly bequeath her the nomination which Governor Allen had just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton of Louisiana: "It is a just and beautiful tribute to the memory...
Resolved to make his uplifted peasant class an "eternal aristocracy" Chancellor Hitler wound up his epochal decree by providing that no peasant may sell or divide his homestead and must bequeath it at death to one sole heir. Jews, being considered ipso facto without honor, were barred from ever inheriting either a peasant homestead or any German farm land whatsoever...
Gifts & Inheritance. Under the House bill a rich man would do better to give his estate to his heirs before his death than to bequeath it to them afterwards. The gift tax climbs to 33½% on $10,000,000 or more. The estate tax runs up to 45% on the same amount. The parent who deeds his children $10,000,000 makes them pay the U. S. $2,312,125 as a gift tax, whereas the same man's heirs would have to pay an estate tax of $3,116,000. From these two tax increases...
...will reads "Having with good reason, ever since my first appearance in Literature a variety of kind feelings obligations and regards towards New England. I have now . . . decided to fulfill a fond notion that has been hovering in my mind these many years, and I do therefore hereby bequeath the books which I used in writing on Cromwell and Friedrich to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, City of Cambridge State of Massachusetts, as a poor testimonial of my respect for that alma mater of so many of my Trans-Atlantic friends and as a token of the feelings...