Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...
Warning of a big onslaught came Thursday, October 21 when a solitary Dartmouth brave wandered into the Stoughton Hall quarters of one Donald H. Shaw '39 and demanded a lodging for the night. Ughing something about the provisions of a gift of bricks used to build the original Stoughton hall in 1695, he claimed the building's charter entitled all Indians to free lodging...
...unprecedented move the Law School Class of 1924, at its 25th Reunion dinner last night in the Hotel Continental, presented the Law School with a gift of $30,000 "to be used at the Deans' discretion." Dean Erwin N. Griswold accepting the donation said that the gift "will establish an endowed scholarship providing full tuition for two students at one time...
...will be Bill Dunkle, who is bringing with him his Promenaders. These people will run through several authentic square dances. The high point of the entertainment will be the first performance this season of the Krokedilloes, College singing outfit, who will later lead everybody in group singing. A gals gift showering balloon dance will really top off the evening, with many valuable souvenirs awaiting lucky dancers...