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...spender. He favors some national economic planning but not the amount called for by the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. He is praised by labor leaders and businessmen alike. Says Douglas Fraser, a vice president of the United Auto Workers: "He is a very enlightened industrialist. His social values are solid, and he practices them...
...longtime political foe of Gandhi's, Goenka is a wily industrialist who owns 17 other Indian dailies besides the Express; they have a combined circulation of about 1 million. Since he opposed Gandhi's adoption of sweeping emergency powers in 1975, her government has seized his jute mill in Calcutta, deprived the Express group of government advertising and ordered India's nationalized banks to deny him credit...
...single most important factor leading to its eventual downfall. All political parties, from the left to the parliamentary right, declared their unwillingness to cooperate, and some more, some less actively, opposed the fascist regime. Only a handful of financial and industrial oligarchs with close ties to international capital (e.g. industrialist Tom Pappas; shipping magnates) collaborated because they sensed their golden opportunity to rob the Greek people and state with impunity. They are now being investigated and prosecuted, along with the leaders of the junta, for their scandalous swindles during these years...
...personal account of his employer. The sum was unusually large: 8 million francs ($1.6 million) in 500-franc notes. Still, no one at the bank thought to question De Vathaire as he lugged two big suitcases out of the bank; after all, he had long been empowered to sign Industrialist Marcel Dassault's name on checks. But then De Vathaire vanished...
...that was easy to bring off." Jean's new role in The Moneychangers, a 6½-hour TV-movie serial, might have been easy for other reasons as well. Now cast as the wife of an overly ambitious businessman, Peters played real-life wife for 14 years to Industrialist Howard Hughes, no second banana when it came to ambition. "It's a cameo role," concedes the actress, who still collects $50,000 each year as part of her 1971 divorce settlement from Hughes. "I'm older now and not as adventurous. A small part satisfies...