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This opportunity is available every year for one course in the School through the generosity of the late George H. Leatherbee who left a bequest for that purpose in 1913. This year the series of lectures by the ex-"brain-truster" has been received with such enthusiasm that it will be nearly six times as large as usual...
...would tax heavily all building land not built on, all farm land not farmed. He would exempt from taxation all homes and ranches assessed at less than $3,000 and make it up on the holders of more valuable property. His inheritance tax would take 50% of any personal bequest over $50,000, 50% of any estate over $250,000. But his greatest project was for the unemployed. He would have the State rent or buy land and inactive factories, establish colonies of unemployed, feed, clothe and house them with the products of one another's labor until they became...
...late great Joseph Pulitzer's will left $50,000 for a statue "at some suitable place on Central Park preferably on 59th Street." By the time his sons placed the statue where he desired they had spent out of pocket $10,000 more than the bequest. For the sake of symmetry the Pulitzers also had to pay for moving Augustus St. Gaudens' heroic General Sherman on horseback, on the other side of 59th Street. When everything was completed in 1915 and water began to flow into a series of Kentucky limestone basins. General Sherman found himself headed straight...
...reference to Lillian Taylor Briggs was in error, which TIME greatly regrets. Her father did leave her $10,000 but without any injunction. His bequest to his wife was "enough of money to get her and daughter [a Mrs. D. H. Jones] into Hell as soon as possible. My wife belittled me more than any human being ever did and I hope she and her daughter will pay for it, when they get my money to go to Hell with...
Left. By Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who died in January 1933, in Paris: the bulk of a net estate valued at $1,326,765.63 to her daughter, Mme Jacques Balsan and other relatives; $100,000 (the only public bequest) to the National Woman's Party...