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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilbur F. Murra, of Cambridge, instructor in Education; Gerard R. Pomerat 1G, of West Springfield, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biology; John G. B. Castor 2G, of Albany, New York, David L. McVickar 2G, of Combridge, Bradford B. Owen 1G, of Berea, Ohio, Robert C. Stauffer 1G, of Minneapolis, assistants in Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVENTEEN MEN NAMED FOR APPOINTMENTS TO FACULTY NEXT AUTUMN | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...doctrine of uberrima fides (utmost good faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate hearing last autumn that she did not know what she was doing when she signed away her dower rights, thinking the $18,000-per-annum allowance was just to be pin money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

With the filing of these objections it became more & more necessary to determine Colonel Green's domicile. It might be Texas, Massachusetts, New York or Florida. If it is Texas, Surrogate Owen has already ruled, Widow Green will be judged an interested party in the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Texan to Texans. In Dallas fortnight ago at a hearing to ascertain facts about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Death & Taxes, No matter what State gets Colonel Green as a resident by Surrogate Owen's ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court will be the court to settle once & for all the question of domicile for tax billing purposes. The tax schedule which Texas' Attorney General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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