Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mr. Nieman died in October, 1935, he divided his wealth evenly between his widow and a niece. His total fortune was estimated at $10,000,000, a sum which is subject to the Federal inheritance tax. Since liquidation of this property involves the sale of a large block of shares of the Milwaukee Journal, a transaction of uncertain magnitude, the amount of Mrs. Nieman's share is still not definitely known, but is probably around $5,000,000. Federal taxes will deduct about 50%, leaving $2,500,000 as an estimated sum which would have been realized...
...Canada. Besides all these there are a working staff from the State Department, the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina and the U. S. Minister to Bolivia. The entire delegation occupies two floors of Argentina's most fashionable hotel, the Alvear Palace, on the famous Avenida Alvear, a block from Avenida Callao. Many of the rooms have been converted into clattering clerical offices to handle the official doings of the group, whose direction rests chiefly with Secretary Hull and Assistant Sumner Welles...
Yale now has steel posts set in concrete installed at a cost of $2000. In one year that Harvard installed similar posts, somebody brought out a block and tackle and pulled the concrete out of the ground along with the posts. The Blue erected her goal posts that fold into the ground last year after a severe criticsm by President Angell concerning student behavior during football games...
Meanwhile at Yale Clint Frank, the new Eli captain who proved such a stumbling block to the Crimson last Saturday, was going ahead with his plans for an early Spring practice next year...
...carefully thought out and wisely administered. Their minority pressure must be employed to insure care and thoroughness in the future. They must form a minority such as Jefferson envisaged in 1790 when he stated that a minority must be a check on the group in power, not an obstructionist block...