Word: howland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edwin Howland Blashfield, 87, dean of U. S. muralists, who at one time got $450 per square foot for his work; after a heart attack; on Cape Cod. One-time leader of a school of U. S. painting, he executed murals for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, the Congressional Library, painted the famed World War poster "Carry...
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 was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes...
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 for typewriting, then tear up the pages...
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood...
James M. Arensburg, George Arents, Charles L. Bigelow, Morris B. Blumberg, George F. Bogardus, Paul H. Bonner, Jr., Roswell Brayton, Preston R. Clark, Clayton J. Clawson, Allen W. Clowes, Robert M. Coquillette, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Frank P. Davidson, Howland Davis Charles B. Ellis, William H. Fain, Jr., Frank C. Farley, Frederic W. Fuller, Jr., William H. Glazier, Frederick D. Grant, Peter B. Greenough, Karl F. Guthe...