Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting...
...State Governments: $44,414,905. If administration of the estate costs $2,000,000, Mr. McCraw figured that the estate will fall short of meeting taxes, but certainly some of the tax bills will be pared when the Supreme Court finally determines the domicile of the late Edward Rowland Robinson Green, son of onion-eating Hetty, who hated lawyers...
Public exhibit of enlarged photographs of modern architecture in England, assembled by the Museum of Modern Art. New York City, opened today in Robinson Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and will continue daily until...
Last October, four months after the Robinson-Patman Act went into effect, the Baltimore purchasing agent for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. received a letter from A. & P. headquarters: "Go through your records carefully and see if there has not been some entry or some correspondence which might come in for criticism or complaint. You are buying large quantities of merchandise from many shippers for a large organization and must realize that everything you do is certain to be subject to review, or even investigation, and we urge you to handle your dealings accordingly...
...more than might be expected from a chainstore with 15,000 outlets and annual sales of nearly $1,000,000,000 was this shrewd bit of foresight. Outlawing price discrimination and many another favor long demanded by the country's big buyers, the Robinson-Patman Act is fundamentally anti-chainstore legislation. Sure enough, in its efforts to retain at least a measure of the advantages of large-scale buying, A. & P. was soon enmeshed in Federal Trade Commission proceedings, dragging in a number of ifs suppliers, who are equally liable under...