Word: haitian-american
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Thomas Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...