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Opening and closing his address with quotations from the Sermon on the Mount, Mr. White struck a strongly religious note as he reiterated the beatitude "the meek shall inherit the earth" with profound faith for the future of the West he has grown...
...Bureau. Not to save $6.18 (filing an appeal cost him $10) but to establish a point that "could mean a big saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait until its birth." The board of Tax Appeals...
Career: If the U. S. were England, Richard Mifflin Kleberg would never have had to do any political campaigning. He would have grown up to inherit a seat in the House of Lords. For he is the elder son of Robert Justus Kleberg, who married Alice Gertrudis King, whose father, Captain Richard King, began in the 1850s to assemble what became not only the biggest ranch in the U. S. but one of the world's most impressive landholdings. Today, dominated by Klebergs, the King Ranch of 1,250,000 acres is twice as big as Rhode Island, nearly...
...Make the world safe for reaction," and "The brutal shall inherit the earth" are the mottoes of a new era inaugurated by the Munich pact, Karl Deutsch, Sudeten German and Professor at the University of Prague told an audience of 200 attending an H. S. U. sponsored forum in Emerson D last night...
Composer Van Vactor, whose Symphony in D won the prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...