Word: inheritability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer...
...evening American. It sold the lease on the Post building on North La Salle Street to "Snake's" Brother John Dawes Ames who publishes the Journal of Commerce in a ramshackle plant on East Grand Avenue. Also it was supposed that Brother John's paper would inherit the Post's legal advertising business which the News does not want as the rate...
...until Huey Long took his Senate seat last winter did the country at large hear his economic program. It was simple: no man is to have an income of more than $1,000,000 per year; no beneficiary is to inherit more than $5,000,000. Incomes and inheritances are to be limited by Federal taxation. For that program in the next Congress Huey Long will control three votes?his own, Senator Overton's and Mrs. Caraway's?which is more than any Wall Streeter claims...
...with Publisher Quirk for several years. Normally softspoken, Publisher Dougherty can swear like a trooper when dealing with men. Her principal business rival is a woman-red-haired Catherine McNelis, president & publisher of Tower Magazines which include New Movie, Photoplay's most serious competitor. Publisher Dougherty does not inherit Mr. Quirk's title of editor. A board of six editors was appointed, headed by Managing Editor William T. Walsh...
...have completely broken their bond with the past and are still experimenting to find an adequate substitute. Here at Harvard, where we hold to the past more than elsewhere in this country it is doubtful whether a school of this sort is compatible with the educational ideals which we inherit. Great men have been among us. Let the people in Lawrence Hall pursue their experiments if they will, but why--while there are still a few distinguished names on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--give the title of educators to a group of statisticians, organizers, and playground directors...