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...what amounted to 72% annual interest (at 30% for every five months). He made a couple of fancy killings importing machinery from the U.S. and olive trees from Portugal. He took to trading in diamonds, speculating in real estate. Toward the end, he began hinting he had a "big backer" who could always find millions for him. Yet the crackup, when it came, caught Rio by surprise. Felipetas in hand, creditors rushed frantically to Albuquerque's Rua Mexico headquarters. Officers, janitors, housewives, merchants swarmed into the empty offices...
...Defense Secretary Lovett. His public-duty commitments range from his local zoning board, his local hospital and state chamber of commerce, to the executive council of the American Cancer Society and the board of visitors of the chemistry and biology departments at Harvard. He was an early Eisenhower backer and a former state treasurer for the New Jersey G.O.P...
Averell Harriman was making no significant gains in the early running at Chicago. His chief behind-the-scenes backer, President Truman, was discouraged and willing to turn in other directions...
...Romanoff's is no longer strictly a family show. Mike has hired an old friend (and original backer) named Harry Crocker, a member of the pioneer California family, to be his greeter, public relations man and, possibly, alter ego. As Crocker knows everyone in California and Mike finds it difficult to remember any name (he once forgot how to spell one of his own aliases), this move should pay off. And it will be necessary for Mike to have someone like Crocker on hand in California if his latest venture pans out: to do over Duveen's former...
...fate of the great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition...