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...chair honors George Gund '09, a Cleveland industrialist who has served on the Board of Overseers and is now a member of the Overseers' Committees on University Resources, Administration and Accounts, Business Administration and Public Health...
...ways to handle people in Latin America: kill them, jail them or have drinks with them. I prefer the latter, but I am not averse to either of the former if it cannot be avoided." It means selling tax reforms to the wealthy, deeply entrenched oligarchs like the Brazilian industrialist who told a U.S. visitor: "You know, Brazil's growth is based in part on not paying taxes. If we paid, the government would spend it on foolishness like the army. Why do you keep talking about taxes? Taxation is an Anglo-Saxon fetish." Most important...
...after 14 years of failure to stop drinking, Maharashtra state has finally given up just as did the U.S., and after April 1 Prohibition will be virtually abandoned. "This gangsterism and bootlegging are just an antisocial manifestation of Bombay's venturesome spirit," says a leading industrialist with genial tolerance...
...after months of anxiety during the nationalization crisis. His victory gave a lift to the Milan exchange, which has been dormant for months; it also heartened Italy's nervous businessmen, who have been deeply depressed ever since last year's leftist turn in politics. Crowed one Italian industrialist: "They could nationalize electricity, but they couldn't nationalize Valerio...
...swung back to an organization clergyman to run it for the next term. At its general assembly in Philadelphia, the 31-denomination council elected to the presidency Reuben Mueller, 66, presiding bishop of the 748,000-strong Evangelical United Brethren Church. Mueller re places (and pronounces his name like) Industrialist (Cummins Engine Co.) J. Irwin Miller, a Disciple of Christ...