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But to be accepted, a millionaire must have a certain sense of social conscience or a gift for humility or an unmistakable faith in God. Hetty Green, lamentably, lacked all of these.
The Green fortune was one of the largest ever accumulated in America. It yielded an almost tax-free income of $7,000,000 a year at a time (1900) when the average individual income was $490, and at Hetty's death in 1916 it was estimated at anywhere from...
Perfectly Good Nails. Arthur Lewis' lively and detailed study of Hetty and the fortune she fostered raises some interesting psychological questions. What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist...
Hetty; it had been in the family for years. She was a Robinson from New Bedford, and her grandfather had amassed a great whaling fortune. Growing up as an only child, Hetty learned the uses of money the way other youngsters learned their nursery rhymes. Her father used to prop...
Old Clothes. Hetty and Henry remained together 14 years-or as long as it took them to consume most of his inheritance. After the separation, Hetty moved into a cheap Brooklyn flat with her two children. Sylvia, when she grew old enough, did the cooking; Ned served his mother as...