Word: executrix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron of the arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made their money by their own unaided efforts. Most commentators therefore give the title "most successful business woman...
...Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic. At the time of the death of her husband, the late Edward H. Harriman, Mrs. Harriman was called "the richest and most important business woman in the world. In one of the briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride as soon as they could toddle, and never let them understand, until they reached years of discretion, that their father...