Word: broker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to make a clean break from baseball. Last week Bob Feller turned down an offer of a front-office job with the Indians and hung up his uniform for good (his No. 19 will be retired from use). From now on he will be a part-time insurance broker, a radio and television executive, and a full-time...
Speaking as an "honest broker" for Chou Enlai, Nehru suggested that the Red Chinese had made several steps toward a "normalizing" of relations with the U.S., reported that Chou was deeply hurt at the U.S.'s rebuff. Why, wondered Nehru, does not the President recognize "realities" by recognizing Chou's government? To which Ike, talking like a civics teacher, briefed Nehru on the realities of American politics. Recognition of Red China, he explained, would require full congressional cooperation, e.g., Senate approval of any ambassador-designate...
...Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees' hands. In May, when U.S. Newspaper Broker Nelson Levings. representing a U.S.-Canadian syndicate, offered the directors $22.5 million, he was told: "The paper is not for sale at this time...
...largest gift to the Program, announced last week, was an anonymous donation of $2 million, given during November. Second largest gift was $1.5 million; third largest a gift of $1 million from John L. Loeb, New York investment broker, earmarked for a new theatre...
...Broker Bay has other substantial holdings, including a controlling interest (282,000 out of the 1,200,000 shares) in American Export Lines, where she is chairman of the executive committee. "After my husband's death," she says, "I couldn't sit back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research...