Word: wahl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agnes Wahl Nieman several days ago bequeathed $1,000,000 to Harvard University "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States." * * * The Metropolitan press has acclaimed the value of the award, and the need for increased background knowledge on the part of the journalists. The metropolitan press has said nothing of the real need of America "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism...
...stamp out the German language in Milwaukee in 1918. Last October Lucius Nieman died rich at 77, leaving in trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this respectable publishing fortune on the ground that Mrs. Nieman was of unsound mind when her testament was drawn...
...obscure broadway actor named Cyril Gordon Weld, for whom she intended a large legacy. Weld died in New York in January, with Mrs. Nieman at his bedside. Saddened, Mrs. Nieman returned to Milwaukee and there made the instrument which was last week contested by Fred and Bob Wahl and Mrs. Paula Wahl Pierce, half-brothers and half-sister of Mrs. Nieman's father, the late Christian Wahl...
Relatives of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal and recent donor of three to five-million dollars to promote journalism here, yesterday contested the will of Mrs. Nieman in Milwaukee...
...contestants are Fred Wahl of Washington, D. C.; Robert Wahl of Chicago; and Paula Wahl Pierce of Chicago. Mrs. Pierce received a bequest of $5,000 under terms of the will, which was filed five days before Mrs. Nieman died, on February...