Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...these exercises should be taken at dawn and sunset, on an empty stomach, on a firm but soft seat, in a quiet neighborhood, naked except for a loin cloth...
...world which Erich Maria Remarque saw blasted away on the Western Front the only good thing that escaped destruction was comradeship. Behind the shattered lives, in a defeated Germany where the old values tumbled overnight, that value still stood firm. This was the thesis of his first two books. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back; it remains the thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood...
...word document left Colonel Green's entire estate to Mother Hetty, or in case of her death, to Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said that her brother had not been a resident of New York, but owned property there...
...Professor Auguste Piccard announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...