Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like most monarchs, the florid, silver-haired financier was born to rule. His was a celebrated family of bankers who built their capital by lending money to promising ventures and taking ownership interests in return. By the time Richard came of age, his family had dominant holdings in the Mellon...
Even a financier of Lear's resources and ability has found it difficult to compete with Detroit. Only government backing can provide steam cars with the boost they need to replace the 90 million gasoline engines now on the road.
With the quirky vanity of genius, he does boast about his skill at tennis, a game he loved. Sir Edward Speyer, the British financier and patron of music, recalls Casals' arriving at his estate one day in the early 1900s and announcing, "First we'll play six sets...
"The dissenter of today will be the innovative financier of tomorrow."
Smashed Typesetter. Founded in 1968 by a group of antiwar youngsters calling themselves "the People's Commune," the Street Journal's troubles began last October when it ran an article attacking Local Financier C. Arnholt Smith. Essentially a rehash of a Wall Street Journal story, the underground weekly...