Word: executors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first day, Fortas came prepared for the second with an annotated list of 14 previous Justices who had advised Presidents. The first Chief Justice, John Jay (1789-1795) counseled George Washington.* The fifth, Roger Taney, helped Andrew Jackson. Associate Justice David Davis, Lincoln's close friend and executor, advised the Civil War President, while Louis Brandeis was called in by Woodrow Wilson during several World War I crises. Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft, in Fortas' words, "performed extensive advisory services for Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...from his years in the South remember him as "articulate and able." South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Van Loc is an old friend, and Bo once wrote a tune that now is the national an them of South Viet Nam. He has not been a designer but an executor of his government's policies. Nonetheless, his familiarity with the West should make him a valuable adviser to a delegation with little knowledge of the non-Communist world...
...responsibility brought on by the recent abdication of the Londoners. A group of Bostonians in 1787 established the present foundation to take up the work dropped by the London Society. A typical contributor to the new Society for Propagating the Gospel was one Colonel Alford, who, according to the executor of his will, "was desireous the Aborigines should be both civilized and christianized; that the Gospel should be sent into the dark, benighted parts of the land...
When the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., acting as executor, sought to determine the value of Miss Atwood's holdings, it discovered that the holdings did not seem to be all there. In a suit filed on behalf of the estate, bank lawyers allege that Fisher has already been well compensated for his services to Miss Atwood. Soon after he became the lawyer for her and her brother Edwin, he persuaded them that in payment for work on a lawsuit they should sign over what amounted to 35% of their King Ranch inheritance. For other legal work...
...divided between her family and various charities. Last week in New York's Westchester County Surrogate Court, her lawyers filed papers stating that the fortune has now dwindled by 58%, with $34.6 million going to pay off inheritance taxes, and $1,100,000 for legal and executor fees...