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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Billionaire | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

John Gelvin, Gene Keith, Red Navin, Jack Penson, Les Pitchford, and Ed Rothschild give the squad a wealth of height which was lacking last year. Ed Buckley, John Flint, Mike Rice, John Righy, and Joe Romano are some of the other men who have faced the Varsity in the past few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Speeds Practice For MIT Opener | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. At that time the British Empire was growing strong. And to young Edward Gibbon the fall of Rome seemed a simple, faraway matter: wealth unmanned the noble Romans; Christianity enfeebled the masses; the barbarians advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Another argument against the weather alibi is that Dartmouth has a wealth of reserve strength, chiefly responsible for defeating Brown, Harvard, and Yale. Why could not these reserves have turned the tide on Stanford...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Dartmouth Lets Down Hopes Of East in Defeat on Coast | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...intensely interesting play. The dramatist has elected as his theme one which is three fold; first, to how great a degree should a man of illustrious forebears allow himself to be governed by the ethics of his ancestors; second, if faced by circumstances of ebbing health and wealth, how much of his ancient heritage is he morally obliged to pass on to his immediate posterity; and, third, when his family has received the tangible evidence of its historic past, is that evidence to be cherished and held at all cost, or is it to be disposed of as too dear...

Author: By V.f. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

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