Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real questions for the Democrats now were who would inherit the receivership of the party, and who would be charged with the job of rebuilding for 1952? Those questions would not be decided at the convention. But rebellious Southerners were still threatening to hold their long-planned Birmingham meeting to discuss the future ownership of the party. That new struggle would occupy the efforts of wrangling Democratic politicos for the next four years...
...characteristics, caused by "sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to fall in love with a girl whose ancestors suffered from the same kind of insanity. Their children, of course, would inherit a double dose of gene-damnation...
...produced such Englishmen as Matthew Arnold (Thomas' son), Lewis Carroll, Rupert Brooke, Neville Chamberlain and the new head master himself, , who as head boy of the school in 1917 occupied the famed "Tom Brown's Study," alongside the Head Master's House lie will now inherit. He also won his colors for Rugby and cricket...
...which included a request that for funerals "the casket be not opened in the church if the service is held there, and that the casket be closed in every case before the service begins if the service is held elsewhere. Christians do not glorify the body, which does not inherit eternal life, but the spirit, which does." Peirce further suggested "that the family not allow itself to be coerced into spending lavishly on casket or otherwise...
...Newport, dimming Socialite Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster, 80-year-old widow, adopted Brigadier General Ralph C. Tobin, 57, former commander of New York's old 7th Regiment of the National Guard, as her son. General Tobin, retired, has been living with Mrs. Webster since May, will inherit her personal estate, estimated...