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There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...
...took his doctor's degree by which he is sometimes addressed today but which has no connection with music. Then revolution blasted eastern Europe. Rodzinski went to the Ukraine as an Austrian agent in charge of food imports. Returning stability found him back in Lwow, as a price fixer on eggs, meat and vegetables. In the evenings he played the piano in a honkytonk...
...rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed to the grey hairs...
...Nazis after war broke out in Europe, because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall of 1941 it brought down a walloping attack from Thurman Arnold. With the aid of its lawyer, ex-New Deal Fixer Tommy Corcoran, Sterling cleaned up its mess by 1) signing a consent decree; 2) agreeing to abrogate its German contracts once and for all and to compete with I.G. actively in Latin America...
...Still in the experimental stage are medicinal applications of indium and its use in a new mordant (color fixer) for the dyestuff industry...