Word: iras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange's activities into the profit column after years of losses. He invested heavily in automation to increase the speed and accuracy of transactions, helped persuade listed companies to release more informative reports to shareholders, and forced companies to make every common stock a voting stock. When Ira Haupt & Co. went bankrupt in a 1963 salad-oil scandal, Funston prevented a crisis of confidence by inducing other member firms to supply $9.5 million to pay off Haupt's customers...
...when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour that just about everybody was elsewhere attending...
...like $1,000 apiece to two Baptist ministers who agreed to work for the candidate. Three Negro athletes also received several hundred dollars apiece for posing for promotional pictures: Timmy Brown, a halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles; Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, a center for the 76ers basketball team; and Ira Davis, an Olympic track star. In his own defense, Shapp testified that the players had volunteered, and that he was surprised when he was asked to pay them...
...IRA S. LOEB...
...Ira Gershwin, D.F.A., song lyricist...