Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington with a plea: Would the Government permit them to raise fresh capital locally so the bank could reopen? Finally, Washington agreed to charter a new bank to replace Rose's old bank, if the townsfolk would raise $1,050,000. The new Ellenville National Bank would inherit Home National's good accounts, while FDIC would assume the dubious ones, continue liquidation of the old bank. Back home, the businessmen scoured the town, selling 20,000 shares of new bank stock at $52.50 apiece. This week they announced that the necessary money had been pledged...
...Inherit the Wind, based on the Scopes trial, consists of a lot of pseudo-legal hot air that makes very effective drama. Melvyn Douglas, who inherited Paul Muni's New York role as Clarence Darrow, blows well and lustily. At the Shubert at 8:30 p.m., tomorrow...
...Inherit the Wind is commercial entertainment at its best. A cleverly constructed play, it sticks close to the ground, to subjects that all the members of a reasonably enlightened audience can agree on. The argument of playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is simple: freedom of thought is better than bigotry. Although this point may not appear overly original, the two writers give it considerable dramatic intensity by recreating the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," where a small town school teacher was brought into court for teaching the "subversive" doctrine of evolution...
...possessing a Harvard education places a unique responsibility on the graduate, White feels, explaining his reasons for accepting the demanding post. "For those of us who have had the good fortune to inherit or acquire substantial means," he says, "this campaign presents the best opportunity we will ever have to repay our debt for having been started on the road with a full...
...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...