Word: heralds
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Besides raising money for Dukakis, the Sunday edition of The Boston Herald reported, developer John Keith has raised tens of thousands of dollars from partners and business associates in the past year for at least three state legislators, a mayor and two members of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA...
Keith, who The Herald said appears to have broken no laws, appeared with Dukakis when the governor kicked off his presidential campaign April 29. Last year, he raised at least $45,000 for Dukakis by hosting a $500-a-ticket cocktail party for the governor and his wife at Keith's Milton home...
Robert Farmer, chief fundraiser for Dukakis' campaign, told the Herald he did not know specifically whom Keith has solicited...
Keith declined to be interviewed, The Herald reported, but his business partner, Eugene Kelly, told the newspaper they neither seek nor expect favors from state agencies in return for their political and financial backing...
...holding company, Bell Group (1986 revenues: $1.5 billion). From that base, he has launched sallies against Broken Hill Proprietary, a huge Australian steel, oil and gas producer, and other big firms. A few months ago he engaged in a bidding war with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch over the Herald and Weekly Times, Australia's largest media group. Last August Holmes a Court disclosed that he was seeking a 15% stake in USX, the steel giant. As takeover speculation pushed the price of the stock upward, he reportedly took a profit on a block of his shares...