Word: frick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frick's Complaint...
...however, Judge and Mrs. Elbert H. Gary will be remarked as newcomers. For years they have attended the Metropolitan's opening night in the Iselin box (15). Now they have purchased Box 19 from the estate of Harry C. Frick. At them steelworkers in the topmost gallery will proudly point...
Overlapping Inheritance Taxes. Henry Clay Frick died in 1919, worth about $145,000,000. Some of his property was in Pennsylvania, some in New York, some in Massachusetts, some in other states. Pennsylvania demanded that the inheritance tax be paid to it on the whole estate, although only some two thirds of the property was in that state. That cost the heirs about $1,000,000 extra?so they went to court contending 1) That Pennsylvania had no right to tax tangible property in other states, 2) that, in computing the value of stocks in corporations of other states...
...Henry C. Frick, ironmaster, left $434,629.52 in insurance policies taken out years before income taxes were in vogue. The U. S. levied a tax of $108,657.38 on this insurance. Had it the right to do so? (A district court has said...
Vocalization. John Gabbert Bowman, Chancellor of Pittsburgh University, was the Spirit's mouthpiece. At a dinner of the Pitt trustees and a committee of citizens, he stood and told how a vast symbol would arise in an open place of the city called Frick Acres, a symbol of snowy limestone thrusting skyward for an eighth of a mile. He told how this shaft would be a habitation for the city's students, saying: "The building is to be a cathedral of learning, a great central symbol which makes the heart leap up and understand Pittsburgh. . . . The building...