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...often told, you give more information about our country, the rest of the world, science and the arts, to the cubic minute, than any paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
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...Gift taxes would be abolished, but all gifts made within two years of death would be classed as part of the estate for tax purposes. (The Treasury wished gift taxes abolished. The present maximum gift...
...million acres of land may or may not be a gift of immense value to an educational endowment fund. A few years ago officials of the University of Texas thought that it was not worth so overwhelmingly much. The land, mostly in western Texas, was about to be sold for a song-almost any song. Then suddenly an enterprising alumnus suggested that the property might contain oil; events have proved that it does. Texan newspapers are already headlining UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RICHEST IN WORLD...
...foot of De Wolfe Street, about 300 yards downstream from the Weld Boathouse, and will connect the Business School with the University proper, is to be named the John W. Weeks Bridge in honor of the former Secretary of War. The University and the Commonwealth have received a gift from former business associates of Secretary Weeks and those who have since been admitted to the firm of which he was one of the founders, for the building of the bridge in commemoration of his achievements in behalf of the Commonwealth and the nation...