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...testatrix, it seems probable that the University will receive between 30% and 40% of the estate, that is, between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Judge Sheridan said in part: "There is a vicious notion prevalent that any will not acceptable to the testator's next of kin may be broken in the courts upon very frivolous grounds". Since in the great majority of cases the superior court upholds the decision of the lower, the University would seem to be in line for a large sum of money...
...that leprosy is not very contagious, Manila's chief health officials quickly appeared at San Lazaro to placate its inmates. The Philippine Government, they intimated, lacks money to pay institutional lepers immediately. On the other hand, the Government is building regional leprosaria where lepers may live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children...
Third Democratic winner of note last week in Oklahoma was Representative-at-large Will Rogers, no kin to his late great namesake, who beat Sam Houston III, grandson of Texas' No. 1 hero...
Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the battle which the South calls First Manassas and the North calls First Bull Run, a Stonewall Jackson again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
...manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made the dollar famous." The watches were manufactured for the Ingersoll brothers by Waterbury Clock Co. During the post-War depression the Ingersolls became over-extended on short-term loans, their partnership went through bankruptcy...