Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million went to his former secretary-nurse, Ethabelle Green, who had sued for half the estate, claiming that Big Bill promised it to her in return for the "care and affection" she bestowed upon him "as a daughter" for twelve years before his death...
Fourteen libraries, including Harvard's Widener, are taking part in a cooperative enterprise, the New England Deposit Library, the first of its kind, which is helping to ease the critical shortage of storage space...
Most of the visitors to the Deposit Library are students sent by Widener for special research. The greatest advantage of the library is its extensive amount of material. Librarians remember the case of one Harvard student who wished to compare the first nine editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
Courtney Rogers collected $2,300 insurance on the house, $1,000 on his father. But when he put in an insurance claim for $400 worth of jewelry which investigators found hidden away in a safety-deposit vault. Courtney Rogers suddenly aroused the interest of the police. Questioned, he calmly announced: "I started the fire that killed my father. . . . His drinking brought sorrow to my mother." After two more days of questioning, he smoothed his red hair and added: "I might as well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too. Said Courtney Rogers: "I had an Oedipus...
...Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...