Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond was granted a remarkable financial reprieve which would have reminded the old man, had he been still alive, of his own narrow escape...
...ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been buried inland and whose five tons of bulk gave Old Ironsides' grumbling sailors no end of trouble. But Hellenistic Commodore Patterson brought his statue safely home, presented it to the flourishing young Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. For more than 40 years it stood in the Academy's courtyard at Tenth and Chestnut...
Left, By Inventor Guglielmo Marconi: an estimated $25,000,000, of which the bulk goes to Maria Elettra Elena, his seven-year-old daughter by his second wife, the former Countess Marie Bezzi...
...This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great bulk of German Protestants who, like the Catholics, are resisting Nazi encroachments in spiritual matters as best they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after...
Left. By the late John Davison Rockefeller: an estate of $25,000,000, residue of a fortune which, but for gifts, might have reached $,.500,000,000. To John D. Rockefeller Jr. he left his personal effects. No bequests were made to friends or servants. Bulk of the estate, estimated at $10,000,000 after taxes, was left in trust to Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of the late Bessie Rockefeller Strong, oldest of Rockefeller's five children, and Prof. Charles Augustus Strong, now living in Fiesole, Italy. She is the wife of Marquis George de Cuevas, Spanish...