Word: banker
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Toiling for Transition. In Peru the military target was not Prado, a conservative banker and aristocrat at the end of his term. The rebellion was against the government that would succeed him. For months the military had vowed that they would not permit the coming to power of Haya de la Torre, chief of the leftist-turned-moderate APRA party, which has been engaged in a bitter, sometimes bloody dispute with the army for more than 35 years. When Haya led the balloting by some 14,000 votes in the June 10 elections but fell short of winning the constitutionally...
...last Brochado da Rocha found 13 "nonpolitical" ministers acceptable to everyone. The two strongest members of a lackluster Cabinet: Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, who held the same post under Janio Quadros, and Walther Moreira Salle, Brazil's leading banker, who holds over as Finance Minister...
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
...Shrewd Banker Wallenberg, however, has restricted himself to overseeing Ericsson's finances. To handle company operations, he brought in as president Sven Ture Aberg, 58, an imperturbable electrical engineer who negotiates with uncommon skill in five languages (Swedish, English, Spanish, French and German...
...rates by themselves attracted new depositors, and since Blue Monday many more Americans have shifted out of stocks and into savings accounts. So far this year, savings deposits in the nation's Federal Reserve member banks alone have jumped by almost $2½ billion. Grumps one Los Angeles banker: "We've got money coming out our ears...