Word: bequeathment
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...Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns so much, and can now, under the new Constitution, bequeath it by inheritance to sometimes pampered offspring.* Moscow correspondents report that the new top-class in Moscow is now feeling so secure in its opulence that at Embassy parties the wives of Big Reds are dressed at least as well as and often better than the wives of the foreign...
With no other investment except their native resourcefulness, the railroading brothers were in a position to stage what might have been the most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...
...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...