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...Democratic National Committee, that money, probably given as cash, next appeared in the bank accounts of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. Its president, Robert H. Allen, is chairman of the Texas finance division of the Nixon re-election committee. G. R. & C. transferred the money to a subsidiary in Mexico, Compania de Azufre Veracruz, S.A. This firm, in turn, gave it to one of Allen's attorneys, Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre, of Mexico City. Ogarrio converted the $100,000 check into $11,000 in cash and four bank drafts, apparently related to the size of the original gifts. An unidentified courier carried...
With one sweeping decree on Aug. 6, 1960, Fidel Castro expropriated Cuban enterprises that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...
Working for the Compania Minera de Oruro in the tin-mining camp of Colquiri, one early morning in 1948, tin miners led by Juan Lechin invaded our homes and took us to union headquarters with shouts of "Que mueren los gringos...
...heart attack; in Montevideo, Uruguay. Aided by loans and contracts from Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron, to whom he had given such thoughtful gifts as a Rolls-Royce, Dodero expanded his shipping business to 382 vessels, the continent's biggest merchant fleet. In 1949 he sold his Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero S.A. to Peron's government. For pleasure, Don Alberto had a small land, sea & air fleet all his own, kept hotel-like establishments on Long Island and the Riviera, habitually spent about $50,000 a week on wine (two full-time bartenders), women (showgirls, models...
Sound-Off. Near the end of the war he had his first real skirmish with Pan Am, when he tried to operate a route in Mexico, where Pan Am's affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Aviación S.A., was already well established (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials...