Word: industrialist
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...Keller series, an annual forum which has included politicians, artists and educators as speakers, has been sponsored since 1958 by the family of Alexander S. Keller, a West Hartford industrialist and one of the university's founders...
Billionaire Howard Hughes does not say much in public-and probably with good reason. After more than a decade of reclusive silence, the eccentric industrialist surfaced in 1972 to tell reporters in a nationally broadcast phone conversation that Author Clifford Irving had written a fraudulent Hughes biography...
...prominent Manhattan couple has switched from vintage to nonvintage champagne, while some of their affluent friends provide only California jug wine-in Waterford decanters. A Los Angeles millionairess, Elsie Pollack, now features chili at her dinner parties; another wealthy hostess has replaced cut flowers with synthetic centerpieces. A Chicago industrialist has turned in his Cadillac for a relatively miserly Mercedes 220 with a diesel engine that gets up to 32 m.p.g...
...writer, a retired industrialist (he was head of Norton Simon Inc.), is an art collector and philanthropist...
Nixon's intimates, of course, were grieving. His industrialist friend Robert Abplanalp wired him: "Even at this hour, I remain firmly convinced that there is no evidence proving that any of your actions were inconsistent with your official responsibility." Rabbi Baruch Korff admitted that Nixon's last admission of complicity in the Watergate affair left him "distressed" but quickly added: "Yes, the President has weaknesses. He's a human being. So he waited three months before disclosing the information. So what...