Word: executrix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clara Ford is executrix of the estate, which holds 95,321 shares (55.2% of the voting stock) for her grandchildren, who will eventually divide it. On these holdings, the estate got $428,944. In addition, dividends of $1,287,445 went to the estate on the 286,099 shares of non-voting stock left to the taxexempt, non-profit Ford Foundation...
Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee...
Ford Finance. Outsiders got a rare glimpse at the financial innards of the Ford Motor Co. when the late Henry Ford's widow-and executrix of his estate- filed an accounting in court. The company, which had been losing money in 1945 and 1946, had improved enough to pay dividends of $2 a share last December and $3 a share last April. About one-third of the $1,907,100 paid on the stock held by the estate went to grandchildren Henry, Benson, William and Josephine Ford, who were left the voting stock. The rest went to the Ford...
...afternoon last week, Porter neatly packed his three bags. In one he put his will, written in the hotel room four days before and naming Mrs. Patterson's housekeeper his executrix. He laid his hat, watch and glasses on the dresser. Shortly afterwards, his body crashed through the screen of an open window of his room and landed on the sidewalk, six floors below...
...also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with Cissie Patterson. So the Times-Herald quickly got an order from the executrix, chartered a plane and flew two men to Clarksburg to get Porter's luggage...