Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Land Baron A. W. Moursund, 45, longtime friend and now principal trustee of the President's financial interests,* says that no Johnson family member has a direct interest in the company. Yet an example of Brazos-Tenth's complicated intertwining with the Johnsons turned up in early 1962. On Feb. 1 the LBJ Co. sold some subdivided lots to Brazos-Tenth. The deed was signed by J. C. Kellam, president of the LBJ Co., and by Donald Thomas, the LBJ Co. secretary. Before the day was over, essentially the same real estate package was sold by Brazos-Tenth...
After dinner, Malraux gave a lofty address en art to the guests, who included James Baldwin, James Johnson Sweeney, Poet Saint-John Perse, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Mmes. Kandinsky and Léger, Ludmilla Tcherina, Yves Montand and Ella Fitzgerald. He called the museum "an important step in the history of the spirit" and concluded: "It was on a night like this that we heard the last blow of the hammer that completed the Parthenon. It was on a night like this that sounded the last blow of the hammer to Michelangelo's St. Peter's." -Yves Montand...
Morris' brother Baron moved on to open a Goldwater store in Phoenix. There he married Josephine Williams, a Nebraska-born nurse who had contracted tuberculosis and gone for her health to Arizona-where she still lives, active and sprightly at 89. Their son Barry was born in 1909, raised as an Episcopalian by his mother. In school, he was a reluctant pupil, quit the University of Arizona in his sophomore year to help with the family store after his father's death...
...Ikeda and the obvious heir apparent, who attacked Ikeda's policy of "patience and tolerance," promised a dynamic regime that would fight for the return of the Kuril Islands from Russia and the Ryukyus (which include Okinawa) from the U.S.; and 2) Aiichiro Fujiyama, a silver-haired sugar baron who had served as former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Foreign Minister and as party coordinator under Ikeda...
...bookmakers labeled the Dagenham caper a "builder play," and have occasionally taken a licking from the same technique. The most notable builder play took place in 1932 at Agua Caliente race track in Mexico. Staged by West Coast Gamblers Baron Long and Harry Fink, it boosted the odds on a horse called Linden Tree from a logical 7 to 10 to almost 10 to 1. By betting Linden Tree heavily with U.S. bookmakers, Long and Fink made a killing...