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Word: amirhanian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fearful that Death might snatch him away from his large fortune before he could make it colossal, shrewd Armenian Merchant Eli Amirhanian drafted a strange will, died peacefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: $120,000,000 Mother | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...will cut off Merchant Amirhanian's children, created a trust fund which a group of Anglo-Indian lawyers were instructed to build up during the next 50 years. This year the half-century is up and prudent investments (chiefly in Indian real estate) have swelled Miser Amirhanian's fortune to the colossal total of $120,000,000. Diligent, the trustees called at Alexandria, Egypt upon white-haired, tremulous Marianne Djanikian, 80, told her that as the granddaughter of Miser Amirhanian she can now claim his fortune under the terms of the will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: $120,000,000 Mother | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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