Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer accepts the dubious overflow of its trustees' attics. From now on the groaning queen of U.S. museums is willing to inherit nothing but the best, and wants no strings attached...
Something Borrowed. Emperor Meiji's 1889 Constitution had proclaimed that "We [the Emperor] have inherited from Our Ancestors the rights of sovereignty . . . and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants." MacArthurian rhetoric, linking the phrases of Jefferson, Lincoln, and F.D.R., gave Japan a new ruler. "We, the Japanese people . . . do proclaim the sovereignty of the people's will." The Emperor was reduced to a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people's will." Young Prince Akihito may still inherit a throne, but not a seat of power...
Engaged. Nedenia Marjorie ("Deenie") Hutton, 22, who will inherit a fraction of her mother's General Foods (JellO, Post, Toasties, a shopping list of others) fortune, wartime USOverseas entertainer and stepdaughter of Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime U.S. ambassador to Russia; and Stanley Rumbough Jr., 25, Colgate soap heir and wartime Marine fighter pilot; in Manhattan...
...rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
...Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years...