Word: banker
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...Dallas real estate, banks, and insurance companies. After Los Angeles and Houston, Dallas was the nation's fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered more historic settings for the Centennial, but unhistoric Dallas promised $3,500,000 and well laid-out fair grounds, and won the contract. Through his experience in the venture, banker Robert...
...Mexican business talk, a "coyote" is a slick deal-maker who moves secretly, cultivates the right people in high places and knows how to come away with a good profit. But coyote is not an offensive label to big, jowly Carlos Trouyet, 59, a Mexico City banker and financier who prizes the title so highly that he wears in his lapel a small coyote made of diamonds. With a personal fortune of well over $15 million, Trouyet (pronounced true-jay) is a director of 42 companies and chairman of 19 of them-in telephones, steel, cement, plywood, textiles, hotels, beer...
...squalid red-light district of Mexico City to a French immigrant father and a Mexican mother, Trouyet began as an office boy in a bank. He made his way up through stock brokerage with a knack for winning important friends. Making himself useful to other like-minded coyotes-including Banker Anibal de Iturbide and Insurance King Manuel Senderos-Trouyet cut them in on his deals, in turn was let in on theirs. Last year he persuaded Textile Tycoon Je-ronimo Arango Sr. to join him in buying a 55% stake in the big old Orizaba textile company-fully appreciating that...
...nonprofit resort for the mind-and-muscle renewal of U.S. leaders in business, labor and government. It is the brain child of the late Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke, creator of Container Corp. and inspirer of its "Great Ideas of Western Man" advertisements. Now chaired and cheered by Southwest Banker-Rancher Robert O. Anderson, the institute has just elected a renowned resident president: Alvin C. Eurich, head of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, and inventor of the Aspen Award...
...symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...