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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...
Judge Elbert H. Gary has bought Box 19 in the "golden horseshoe" at the Metropolitan Opera House. The box belonged to the estate of Henry C. Frick, whose family were to be seen in it for some years before his death. How much Judge Gary paid for his box is not known. "Two hundred thousand dollars!" said idle gossips. (They attempted to substantiate this statement by recalling that one William Ross Proctor paid $200,000 for Box 26 some years...
Near Haverstraw on the Hudson, where Benedict Arnold met Major André, a tablet was erected and a speech was made by the State Historian of New York (Dr. Alexander C. Frick...