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Mary F. Stanard sued his executor, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, for $66,666. Near Pontoise, France, ghouls tunneled into the tomb of munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharos, pried open the mahogany casket of his wife, supposedly in search of jewels falsely reported to have been buried with her corpse...
...make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer. He put his father's executor, H. Paul Grimm, in as president. Pacific Western was Oilman Getty's springboard to big Tide Water. Pacific Western dipped into surplus funds, bought 360,000 shares of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. common stock at depression prices while Mr. Getty and other Getty interests acquired 500,000 other shares...
...made executor of the estate and some time later several checks were sent me. . . . I had no choice. I signed the checks and turned them into the estate. At any rate, the sum was small. I think those two checks which were returned represented a fourth of the sum. . . . While it is true that, ultimately, I might benefit when the estate is settled, I had no choice as executor. After the act was invalidated, however, I felt that, since I held against the law, the checks should be returned...
...estate of which Justice Van Devanter was executor was that of his late wife. The checks he received were AAA benefits for not growing wheat on two small tracts in Montana which had belonged to Mrs. Van Devanter. The act which Justice Van Devanter helped to annihilate last January was the AAA. The two checks he thereupon returned to the Treasury were...
...shouldn't we do more? Therefore, immediately upon my return to Paris in September I went to see Louis Barthou, with whom I was especially well acquainted, as M. Barthou was an ardent Hugophile and I had been presented to him by Gustave Simon, Hugo's testamentary executor. So our ideas on literature coincided. At any rate, I made known to him the result of my deductions adding, 'Between the loth and 15th of October, take special precautions...