Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But now, within a few days, the public has learned of a second ITT scandal--involving that corporation's attempt to give the Central Intelligence Agency $1 million to overthrow the government of Chile--and a $200,000 Nixon campaign gift (subsequently returned) from Robert Vesco, a financier currently indicted...
Some investments approach that ideal. Allstate Insurance Co.'s private placement division maintained a growth rate of 40% a year during most of the 1960s by making prescient purchases in such companies as Memorex, Teledyne and Control Data. Chicago Financier E.F. ("Ned") Heizer has put his Heizer Corp. into...
To raise more capital, the partners approached 20 wealthy people, asking for investments of $5,000 each. John Murchison signed up, and others quickly followed. With their money as a base, Seibert then sold limited partnerships for $10,000 each to another 100 people. Each of the initial investors got...
The McGovern forces may have the most difficulty in winning back many of the big-money Democratic contributors who are now sitting on their wallets. Already Nixon's men are busy courting Democratic supporters. This week, for example, Financier Gus Levy of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City...
Died. George Maxwell Bell, 59, Calgary oil financier and chairman of P.P. Publications Ltd., Canada's largest newspaper chain; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Montreal. Bell bailed out his father's debt-ridden Calgary Albertan by borrowing from friends, then went on to build a multimillion...