Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet last week. An emollient was provided by the late Sir Thomas Lipton. In the U. S. canny Sir Thomas always stressed his Irish parentage. In his will he remembered his Scotch birth. To hospitals, infirmaries, old men's and women's homes in Glasgow went the bulk of his estate, estimated at some $3.910.000. For the immediate relief of poor mothers and their children in Glasgow went an additional $312,000. Sir Thomas was buried in Glasgow last week, beside his parents in the cemetery known as the Southern Necropolis. Hundreds of humble citizens marched past...
Saxon Laborites drew different conclusions: 1) The experiment has proved that thousands of unemployed are not "loafers on the dole" but men pitifully eager to do hardest work for lowest pay; 2) The fact that 120 men eating food bought wholesale and cooked in bulk ate 2 marks 50 pfennigs worth of food per day suggests that this is the minimum cost of adequately feeding adult males. How then can a Saxon on the dole, who only gets two marks per day, adequately feed and lodge himself...
Astute Manhattan Attorneys Samuel Untermyer and Arthur Garfield Hays and astute Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained...
Last week the South waited patiently for the "big fat boy" to throw some of his surplus bulk into the surplus cotton problem, to take up the "torch" for other States to follow...
...getting poorer.' . . . The number of taxpayers has steadily decreased, indicating the unsatisfactory distribution of profits among individuals. The only class which reaped substantial profits from 1925 to 1929 consisted of 14,700 individuals with net incomes above $100,000. ... It seems obvious that these individuals should bear the bulk of any increased tax burden...