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Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 17, 1936 | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1936 | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Last week the assembled millionaires were greeted officially by Founder-Presi-dent Clayton Sedgwick Cooper but the bill for the banquet at Boston's Hotel Copley-Plaza was footed by the Committee's New England members, including Speculator William ("Big Bad Bill") Danforth; Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Millionaires' Talk | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Wellesley is this year charging students $500 instead of $600 for room & board, $500 instead of $400 for tuition. During Depression the college has added $2,500,000 to its endowment, acquired a majestic new administration building named Hetty Green Hall, a zoology laboratory, another co-operative dormitory and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Sisters | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

After sundown one day last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 7,000,000 Volts | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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