Word: hechts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show U.S. investors. At the opening meeting, 1,200 delegates...
Double Take. In Los Angeles, burglars broke into the offices of the Hecht-Lancaster Motion Picture Producing Co., made off with $500 in stage money...
Radio Tributes (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). The life of Carl Sandburg, with Dave Garroway, Adlai Stevenson, Ben Hecht. Charles MacArthur...
...President promptly sent his personal endorsement of the plan to the board's chairman, Eric Johnston. Even before this, the City of New Orleans had become interested in the board's idea. Rudolf S. Hecht, on behalf of International House, and a group of the city's private business organizations undertook the job of sponsoring just such a conference...
Later I was approached by Mr. Hecht with the proposal that TIME act as co-sponsor of the conference. I was pleased to accept the invitation. We have long had an interest in Latin American affairs; the Latin American edition of TIME, started in 1941, was the first of our four international editions. Immediately, Edgar R. Baker, managing director of the international editions, set to work with Mr. Hecht organizing the meeting. It was decided to call the meeting the Inter-American Investment Conference and schedule it for four days in New Orleans early in March...