Word: transferability
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...bequest of $139,558, left to Harvard University by a clause in the will of the late Mrs. Gladys Carroll Marvin, has been rejected by the Corporation of the University because of a restrictive clause. The incident, which was revealed by the filing of a transfer tax appraisal, is reminiscent of the recent rejection of the bequest of the late A. E. Pillsbury, Mrs. Marvin died in December, 1928, leaving a net estate of $242,172, of which the residuary estate was left to the University, on condition that the corporation pay an annuity of $10,000 to her mother...
Died. James Isaac Buchanan, 77, president of Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer Co. and River & R. R. Terminal Co., director of many a utility concern, onetime Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite, longtime member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, holder of other Masonic offices; from a fall on an icy pavement; in Pittsburgh...
...since 1927 have been attempting to crack the 18th Amendment from a little-discussed angle-namely, that its ratification by state legislatures was void because it dealt a grant of power to the Federal Government so large that only state conventions of the people themselves could constitutionally approve the transfer. Judge Clark accepted this argument and expanded it into a monumental thesis of his own which packed twelve tight news-columns of print. The Judgment. Judge Clark reasoned as follows: 1) Article V of the Constitution provides for ratification of amendments "by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several...
...Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist Whitehouse was overjoyed by his transfer year ago from Madrid to Guatemala (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). And last week, even as Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was off in Paris when the Brazilian revolution broke, Minister Whitehouse was not in Guatemala but vacationing in Florida. Chagrined by the presidential triple play at Guatemala City, he made hasty arrangements...
...medical teachers, gave the new head of the faculty (approved by A. M. A.) a raise. The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States in its meeting three weeks ago suspended Mississippi's four colleges, barred their representatives from participation in Association business. Mississippi students transferring to other colleges will get no credit, will have to take examinations anew. Hardest hit are medical students, for after their two-year course at Missis sippi they must transfer, finish elsewhere...