Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The mysterious financier, who has been identified as a member of an extremely wealthy and well-known Harvard family from outside the Boston area, is remaining anonymous because he does not want to be discovered as bidding against Harvard. Five additional, but apparently lesser backers may also be behind Coffman...
Clean Front. Dardi's downfall began in 1953 at a Manhattan cocktail party, where he met Lowell M. Birrell, a charming but ruthless looter of companies who has since fled to Brazil and is under indictment for fraud. Birrell was then in control of United Dye, but he needed...
* Named after a 19th century New York financier, Eugene Jerome, whose cousin Jennie was the mother of Winston Churchill.
The corporate game of musical chairs is played with a vengeance at New York's ailing Fairbanks Whitney Corp.-and the tune that calls the winner often sounds like a dirge. First there was Financier Leopold Silberstein, who began building the company in 1951 with grandiose plans for its...
Bing, Bing, Bing. Taylor's first business lessons came from his Irish-descended grandfather, an adventurous Ottawa financier. Says Taylor: "My grandfather's mind worked like mine-bing, bing, bing." After the 1929 crash and a brief career as a partner in an investment firm, young Taylor took...