Word: gifted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fabulous Offer. In 1936 Collector Gulbenkian lent 30 of his finest paintings to London's National Gallery, later offered the gallery all the paintings as an outright gift on condition that they be housed separately, not spread thin among the museum's other masterpieces. The offer was refused. So, soon after the war, Gulbenkian packed up his 30 pictures, added ten more masterpieces to make the parcel even more attractive, and shipped it all to Washington's National Gallery, on a loan basis...
...Gift from Seoul...
...week's end Saud departed in his Convair in a flurry of gifts given and accepted, topped by Hussein's gift of a $350.000 twin-engined Vickers Varsity for Saud's personal use. Behind him Saud left a communique, clothed in the exquisite evasions of Arab courtesy, in which the two Kings declared their joint devotion to "military collaboration among the four Arab countries," their enmity for Israel, their "adoption of the positive neutrality policy and the rejection of all foreign pacts...
...than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
Starting with a basic provision in the tax law of 1954, which allows any taxpayer to donate up to 30% of his income to certain charities and count the gift as a tax deduction, smart tax lawyers have refined an endless series of methods to help clients reduce tax payments, or in some cases even make money. Texas oilmen and other mineral producers can donate part of their future production to charity, deduct both the expected income and the total value of the gift (since reserves are also being depleted) from their taxes. This "double deduction'' enables...