Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dynastic Hambro family, the world's biggest merchant bankers, started their moneymaking art two centuries ago, when a Hambro sea captain got word that the Queen of Denmark had died in Paris; he promptly cornered the market for crape in Copenhagen. Britain's Baring banking clan made a great leap forward by arranging an $11,250,000 bond issue for Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. The Rothschilds of Paris and London grew to prominence by smuggling millions in gold through Napoleon's line to Wellington's forces in Spain. Such are the foundations...
...such clients as Britain's Courtaulds textile empire and the government of Portugal. Merchant bankers are the business world's greatest merger brokers and proxy fighters. Nobody profits more from this than London's Siegmund Warburg, German-born dollar scion of the 400-year-old banking clan, who in 1958-59 counseled Reynolds Metals in its successful fight with Alcoa for control of British Aluminium Ltd. So highly is Warburg's advice valued that he is retained simultaneously by Britain's two leading press tycoons, Cecil King and Roy Thomson...
...place very much like Boston and the Irish-Catholic community-bounded by faith, politics and new money-that O'Connor has explored so often before. On his trip, however, he has no clear idea where he wants to go, except that his :amily should resemble the Kennedy clan only in the most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion and then sits by, fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues...
...nationwide Gallup poll. In February, Lyndon led Bobby by a comfortable 2 to 1 among Democrats. Six months later, the Democratic ratings were 40% for Bobby to 38% for Lyndon, and 38% to 24% among independents-a result that prompted Gadfly Bill Buckley's crack that the Kennedy clan must have purchased the Gallup poll...
...Rockland exhibition rapidly took on the overtones of a family reunion, and the whole clan was on hand to relive old memories. For not only did N.C. put his children into his paintings, he also turned his children into painters. "You had to paint in our household," says Ann, who modeled for the little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter...