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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 nobleman. They have two children. Elizabeth and John. Rockefeller's will explained that...
Last February, The Nation antagonized its angel by greeting Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan with tempered approval as "a brilliant tour de force. . . . It is the task of progressives to support the measure-with an open-eyed awareness of its shortcomings...
Second most important U. S. Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...
...George de Bothezat, consultant on mathematical problems in plane design who lives near the Army air base at Dayton, Ohio...
...first Looking in to Chapman's Homer", and "Odo to Autumn," by John Keats have been unearthed from the Preasure Room along with "Amours de Voyage" by Arthur Clough. "Hymn before sunrise" by Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling's "Recall" are also shown...