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...will of the eighth Duke of Rutland, who left an estate valued at about $4,500,000, the Dowager Duchess, ''best and dearest woman ever born," received the Arlington Street house (which she has been forced to sell to meet the heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that...
...unfamiliar suite by Pur- cell, the first Los Angeles performance of three movements from The Planets by Gustav Hoist. Sir Henry had been encouraged to give some modern English music; he chose Ethel Smyth's On the Cliffs of Cornwall, a scene from The Immortal Hour of Rutland Boughton...
...Duke of Marlborough?like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar?transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...
...grew, according to popular tales, he acquired an education by hard work, invented a mouse-trap and performed sundry undistinguished feats. "It was in the year 1857 that this same person came into the business world with his first name shortened to Jay, and in possession of the Rutland & Washington R. R. He soon parted with this property at a profit and, in 1860, went down to Manhattan...
...Republican Senators, 21 incontinently fled the state. They settled just across the border at Rutland, Mass. They remained there. The Bartlett House, where they were staying in the summer, found it worth while to put in steam heat to accommodate them when winter came on. One Senator died. Another, a former divine, became a lecturer at Worcester and is not expected ever to return. The others lived amicably in sun and shade at the expense of the Republican State Committee-an expense estimated at from...