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...Mars, Iowa, the probated will of T. M. Zink, deceased attorney, revealed:1) His $100,000 estate is to be placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...
...Government. The animals had come all the way from East Greenland via Norway; had even farther to travel after they reached Manhattan. The U. S. Government had bought them to release in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska. The U. S. plans to spend $40,000 to re-establish the herds of musk oxen which disappeared from Alaska before men can remember...
...most of the residue. Excerpt from the will: "I declare on my honor that I have never been married, and never have been a parent of a child in or out of matrimony, but in case anyone claiming or pretending to be my wife or child or grandchild should establish such claims in any court of competent jurisdiction, to each such person I give and bequeath...
...Last week President Hoover named three other commissions to make special investigations: 1) To advise the Government Departments on methods for revision of the statistical services for the determination of unemployment and to establish the method of co-operation between government departments and business. 2) To investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions...
Embargo Off. Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked." He revoked his pulpwood embargo. He admitted that the evidence "was conflicting and inconclusive . . . and not sufficient to establish the fact that the pulpwood was produced by convict labor...