THE DAY THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE (314 pp.)Arfhur H. LewisHarcourt, Brace & World ($5.75).
Sooner or later, the U.S. forgives most of its millionaires. It elects them Governors and Presidents and honors foundations established in their names.
But to be accepted, a millionaire must have a certain sense of social conscience or a gift for humility or an unmistakable faith in God. Hetty Green, lamentably, lacked all of these.
The Green fortune was one of the largest ever accumulated in America. It yielded an almost tax-free income of $7,000,000 a year at a time (1900) when the average individual income was $490, and...
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