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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...three original lithograph stones from which prints can still be made. Notable among the paintings are six watercolors whose discovery was announced a few weeks ago in Baltimore by researchers who are still engaged in sorting out the vast collection left by Henry Walters, "the South's richest man" (railroads), who died in 1931. Three of these, Interior of an Omnibus, First-Class Carriage, and Lawyer exist in no other version and had not been seen for 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Definitely Daumier | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...book called "The Philosophy of a Fool." In it, he wants to make philosophy easier to take by flavoring it with humor. He said, as an example, "Once somebody asked me why I was so generous with my money. I answered that I've no desire to be the richest man in the cemetery...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Ed Wynn Advocates Clean Humor and "Philosophy of a Fool" . . . Giggles Way to Peace in "Hooray for What?" | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard men are, of course, old before their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every new me, for more than half of U. S. motorists have never owned a new car. U. S. sales last year equaled 4,016,000 new cars and trucks, 6,590,000 used ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: January First | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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