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...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
Schliemann discovered too much at Troy; not one stratum but several. The level at which he found the treasure he naturally wanted to believe was the Homeric city, but scholars, still disagreeing among themselves, now think Schliemann was probably wrong. A richer find-richest of all archeological finds-Schliemann made four years later, at Mycenae, Greece. His excavations at the ancient sites of Orchomenos and Tiryns were only slightly less fortunate...
...John Dodge, a widower, took unto himself a second wife, Mathilda Rausch of Detroit. When two years after his death in 1922 the Dodge Bros, motor interests were sold for $120,000,000, his widow was one of the richest women in the U. S. She took an active part in the disposal of the company, showed business acumen. That same year she married Alfred George Wilson of Detroit. She became a director of Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. (then Fidelity Trust Co.), later was elected to the board of Graham-Paige Motor Corp. She built the Wilson Theatre in Detroit...
...story troubled them. Here was the third or fourth richest man in the world, the greatest personal power in U. S. finance, and yet, unlike Ford or Rockefeller, his name alone would not carry. Mr. Baker would have to be explained, but there was scarcely a note in all the newspaper files with which to particularize the remote legend of a chop-whiskered old man of great wealth. His philanthropies were many, exceeding in recent years $12,000,000. To Harvard he, a non-college man, gave the $5,000.000 foundation for the School of Business Administration...
...against the Youngstown-Bethlehem Steel Merger. Unwilling to sell his Youngstown stock and, for tactical reasons, forced to buy more, Mr. Eaton was soon in an over-extended position. He needed cash. So, at the end of 1930 he (through Otis & Co.) sold to Continental Snares one of his richest plums: 40% of the voting stock of United Light & Power (the $500,000,000 utility system which was Mr. Eaton's first big achievement after he had abandoned. in 1906, the idea of becoming a Baptist preacher). But more cash was needed and so he also gave to Continental Shares...