Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Charles William Eliot's personal papers, released this year on the fiftieth anniversary of Eliot's death, show that Eliot tried in 1903 to bilk the financier J. Pierpont Morgan out of nearly a quarter of a million dollars to finance the construction of Harvard Medical School buildings.
The motives for the scheme were apparently altogether noble ones. There were five new Med School buildings to be built, and Eliot had agreed to pay for three of them, with Harvard footing the bill for the remaining two. Eliot and the architects' effort was designed to put as much...
The truth of Kumar's innocence and the fact that Merrick is a man for whom law is an instrument of perversion and prejudice are not sufficiently unexpected to require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the...
Two TIME cover stories have collected multiple awards this year. Peter Stoler's "Exploring the Frontiers of the Mind," published Jan. 14, 1974, has won three: the National Association of Science Writers' Science-in-Society Award, the American Medical Association's magazine journalism award and a Special...
Not content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he...