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...outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund for any relatives who may have been forgotten, orders a cut of one-third in the bequest of anyone who contests the will. A final codicil increases all bequests by the amount the pound has dropped since England left the gold standard...
...twenty tutors and assistants in the field of Classical Studies, the bequest will probably mean an increase of about $1,000 in their annual salaries. For the University it will mean that the services of men who might otherwise accept professorships at smaller universities can be retained...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...
Revocation of a bequest of $150,000 to Harvard University and one of $75,000 to the Fogg Art Museum were disclosed when the will of Herbert Nathan Straus '03 was filed for probate in New York City recently. A total of over $900,000 in philanthropic bequests has been eliminated from the will...
...final gift was a library of 2,350 volumes on a wide variety of subjects. This was the bequest of Dr. W. L. Richardson '64, late professor in the Medical School. It was made up in the greater part of books by well-known writers in history and literature, with a scattering of travel and science...