Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widening Whirlpool. Next, it became clear through testimony from Lieut. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, that White House advisers had tried to persuade the CIA to take the rap for Watergate or at least provide an excuse that would keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of...
Mitchell and Stans became the first former Cabinet officials accused of a crime since the Teapot Dome oilfield-leasing scandal of 50 years ago.* They stand charged with being so eager to secure campaign contributions for the reelection of President Nixon that they used their great influence to help a...
At the heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe...
Local businessmen view Vesco's bulging money bags with a nervous ambivalence-as both a promise of much-needed investments and a threat to their control of local enterprises. Lately, Vesco's name has been linked with almost every sizable business deal in the country. Despite Vesco'...
Died. Allan P. Kirby, 80, financier who built an inheritance of $50 million into one of the world's largest personal fortunes; in Harding Township, N.J. With the legacy left from his father's investment in Woolworth stores, Kirby and his flamboyant partner, Robert Young, bought control of...