Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bowditch, at present an instructor in English and Latin at Milton Academy, graduated two years ago as Second Marshal of his Class. He was president of the Student Council. He is a brother of John B. Bowditch '37, now president of the Student Council, and Second Marshal of the graduating Class...
...surprise witness at the first session was tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 66, whose right to her brother's fortune by terms of a will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel E. Harlow Green, 66. Dressed completely in black as was the habit of her mother, Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street." rich old Mrs. Wilks sparred verbally with solemn-faced Lawyer Isaac A. Pennypacker, who questioned her on behalf of Widow Green. Ignoring the scales of justice separated...
...Surrogate allowed her to write out her testimony on a slip of paper. It turned out that she found the will among papers of Green Estates, Inc., the family management firm. Then Lawyer Pennypacker showed Mrs. Wilks two letters found in her brother's hotel apartment after his death. Both of them were reputedly written by old Hetty Green to Son Ned. One of them dictated the terms of the disputed 1908 will. Asked if the letters were in Hetty's handwriting, Mrs. Wilks replied...
Surrogate Owen allowed the letter, telling Ned Green how to make out his will, to be submitted as evidence. Then followed a series of questions about her pleasure-loving brother's life which drew scornful replies from Mrs. Wilks. Examples...
...first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile...