Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government securities, including only one sentimental share of Standard Oil Company of California and just about enough U. S. Treasury notes to pay his last taxes: $4,385,000 to New York State, $12,245,000 to the U. S. Treasury. Principal individual beneficiary under his will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only...
...Lady Vanishes (Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty; TIME...
...that industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...
DEATH SENDS A CABLE-Margaret Tayler Yates-Macmillan ($2). Murder and malice domestic at a naval post. Large roster of credible characters; sprightly details of service life...