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...most interesting cases focus on the vast estate he left behind, estimated as high as $2.3 billion. Hughes left no authenticated will???or at least none so far has been found. Although 30 or so purported wills have surfaced, most have been immediately dismissed as fakes or humorous hoaxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...faraway friends but strange clicks or buzzes, interminable rings, or deep, total silence. Now there is a strong feeling abroad that things just do not work right any more. America the Efficient seems to have become a land governed by Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will???and at the worst possible time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...Will???not Willis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will???attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Good & Rich | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...estimating her testimony it must be taken into account that she is one of several legatees under her ex-husband's will???the Daughertys are among the others?and she is at present contesting for a larger share in the division of the estate. Her lawyer for a time was one of the arch-political-enemies of Attorney General Daugherty. It was reported that she attempted indirectly to sell her story to the press? but without success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Witnesses | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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