Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inheritance taxes on individual legacies (in addition to regular estate taxes) with exemption of $10,000 to $50,000, depending on the relationship of the testator to the legatee and graduated from 4% up to 75% on legacies over $10,000,000. (Present tax on individual legacies: none.) Yield...
Three years ago Clarence Day amused readers with a slight, shrewd, sentimental collection of sketches called God and My Father, dealing with the many difficulties in the relationship of the elder Day to religion in general, his wife's religion in particular. Father was stubborn, spirited, redheaded, nothing if not practical. The God visioned by clergymen and his wife struck him as distinctly unrealistic, overemotional, inefficient and certainly not a good executive type. Father thought of Heaven in terms of a good club; he snorted with exasperation when he took his troubles to God, and sometimes shock his fist...
...Minn, was an extremely practical criminologist. At the turn of the Century he let the word quietly pass around the Midwest's underworld that St. Paul offered sanctuary for crooks who were "hot" elsewhere so long as they behaved themselves decently within the city limits. This easy-going relationship lasted a generation, and the O'Connor tradition did not die when he did in 1924. Such latter-day bad men as the late Homer Van Meter and "Machine Gun" Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed...
...making wills, exercising of paternal or civil rights, deprivation of nationality, impossibility of engaging in any commercial activity and complete social ostracism, the sentence to be read publicly." As Judge Görtz observes, the Nazi ax has its disadvantages "because the death penalty may establish a continued relationship between the condemned and the public"-martyrdom...
...blindly loyal to his college that he desires to see it prosper at the expense of its intellectual growth or its contribution to society. It is this tendency to make college the end, rather than to twined his horizons so that he may gain an understanding of the relationship which his college should have to his social life, that contributes to the present inadequacy of the liberal arts college...