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Word: woodcrest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...cross-examination of Mrs. Dorrance counsel for the Commonwealth tried hard to establish that household expenditures at Woodcrest far exceeded those at Pomona Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dorrance, Death & Taxes | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...suit to collect $31,465,200 inheritance taxes from the estate of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, founder and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co. The Commonwealth, which appraises the estate at $200,000,000. contends that Dr. Dorrance's real home was his estate Woodcrest, at Radnor, Delaware County, which he acquired in 1925. The doctor's widow, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, his brothers Dr. George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president of the Campbell company) and his lawyers insist that his only permanent residence from 1910 was at Pomona Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dorrance, Death & Taxes | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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