Word: cade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heineman in Manhattan with a new ultimatum: if he would not yield Barcelona, he could expect blows at CHADE, another SOFINA subsidiary in Spain. CHADE, though it owned no interests in Spain, used a Madrid office to collect the profits from the huge power interests it owned in Argentina (CADE). Heineman hastily moved CHADE to Luxembourg, where it transformed itself into SODEC (an identity it had used in a previous move to save its financial skin during Spain's civil...
...With major holdings in some 50 U.S. and foreign power companies, the more important of which include: Campañia Argentina de Electricidad (CADE), which operates light & power plants in the Buenos Aires area; Mexican Light & Power, Ltd.; Belgium's Société d'Electricite de Rosario; Portugal's Compagnies Réunies Gaz et Electricité; and, in the U.S., the Public Service of of Indiana, Inc. and Central Illinois Public Service...
...Henry Cade was pushing 30, apparently only mildly restless in his second-drawer job at Vinnaver & Jaxon. Then he got his break: the syndicate rights to a rising young columnist named Wally Pohl. In return for the rights to "Pohl's Apart," V. & J. made Henry a full partner. Then Henry realized that "you could no more want a little success than you could want a little love ... To want less than everything was to get nothing...
Parallel with the satire in The Price Is Right, Weidman tries something bigger; he appears to offer Henry Cade as a sort of modern Macbeth, a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman's Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that...
Aptly, "shag-hair'd" rebel Jack Cade was the self-styled leader of the Third Party . . . who elsewhere says to his vacillating mob of followers...