Word: executor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortly after Rhodes's death, the first executor of his will told a convention of American university and college presidents that "provided they would select from each state the candidate most likely to become President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or ambassador to Great Britain, then Oxford and the Rhodes Trustees would probably be satisfied." There are some Rhodes scholars who never use their gifts, Rice says, but he adds that "if there's any quality that's common to Rhodes who haven't done much, it's that they see all the sides...
...would rise at four every morning to work and in the month of October alone spewed forth at least 26 poems. For the past 13 years the tape has been preserved in the Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, but it was not until this year that the executor of Plath's estate--her sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes--consented to release the tape for a commercial recording...
...important criticism of shuttle diplomacy is that it required the commitment of far too much of Kissinger's time and prestige. One of his problems is that he is unwilling to delegate authority, and he takes on too many jobs. Often he has acted as both the planner and executor of foreign policy, giving the impression of a troubleshooter rushing from one crisis to another...
Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...
...politician in pouring on subsidies and paying farmers to keep land out of production under the so-called set-aside program last year. Federal payments to farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...