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Married. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 31, scion of the Krupp steel corporation who receives an allowance o $500,000 a year as a quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...
Another evidence of the falseness of the bill, according to Maass, is that it is called "quitclaim" legislation. But quit claim is legal terminology for a grant of a piece of property by one party to another when each party has clear interests in the ownership of the property. "The new Holland bill no quitciaim," Maass said. "It is a clear gift by the federal government of lands in which the states have no interest whatsoever...
...considered whatever. Since the United States has "paramount rights and full dominion" in this land, why should the government give the land away? How can the federal government, they argue, give land in which all the states have an interest to three states? This, they say, would be a quitclaim, and they see no reason...
...would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
...Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen . . ." (TIME, March 25, p. 14) The Old Man" (affectionate alias by majority of Nebraskan voters) was never Kansan was is and will continue to be potent . . . non-meddler in patronage, reluctant recommender. Still Nebraska claims wholly. Kansans please quitclaim...