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On the strength of the Morgan contact, Clark branched out. made his first million in the '20s. In 1929 he founded his present firm, Ivor B. Clark Inc., and rode out the Depression comfortably by finding money for needy Wall Street investors to whom banks refused to lend a...
Hetty Green well deserved her reputation as "The Witch of Wall Street." A genius at stock speculation and a hard-hearted moneybags, she was ever ready to foreclose on a church mortgage or haggle over the price of a peck of potatoes. She lived in grubby solitude in a $12...
Like her mother, Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Rowland Green Wilks was a lonely, frugal recluse. She dwelt alone in a Manhattan apartment, wore cheap, drab clothing, doted on newspaper comic strips. After her death a year ago at 80, officials found her will stuffed in a tin cabinet along with four...
Even in Government bonds that much money would earn at least $600,000 a year; in a checking account it earned nothing. Bankers said they had never heard of anything like it. Said one: "Her mother, old Hetty, would never have let her money lie idle like that."
An additional half million dollars will fall into the lap of the University when the will of Hetty Green Wilks, daughter of female financier Hetty Green, is finally probated, an accounting of the will revealed Wednesday. The University's share, originally estimated at $2,000,000, is now thought to...