Word: largesse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made money on barbed wire and risked as much as $150,000 a night at the faro table. Some of the inheritance Baker invested in profitable local real estate, e.g., a bank, the Baker Hotel. The bulk he put to work helping his home town. Samples of his largess...
...most Western oilmen ENI's largess was a power play to crash Italy into the big leagues of Middle East oil. Probably no major Western company will be as free-handed in future contracts with oil-rich Iran. Even so, the ENI deal is a significant break in the fifty-fifty pattern. The government will press for NIOC participation in future oil deals...
...somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance man who was one of George Craig's first political backers. A wise politician, Kidd decided to let others share the largess. Among the men that he selected was Republican State Senator Wesley Malone, a Clinton insurance man, one of the two original sponsors of the toll road plan. Said Malone, who got a $1,600 check as his share of the commission: "I don't feel like I was bought...
...years Harvester Heiress Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, cousin of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, was Chicago's Lady Bountiful. Before she died last February at 87 (TIME, Feb. 22), "Aunt Anita" had given away more than $10 million; even so, her estate topped $35 million. Her largess was distributed left and right, though in recent years, mostly left, e.g., $50,000 to Henry Wallace's Progressive Party presidential campaign...
Last week the results of this largess were on view in Paris' Pedagogical Museum. Among some 300 childish works done by boys and girls in France's Pacific possessions were nine drawings of special interest: they were done by six of the eight grandchildren of Paul Gauguin and Tehura. The most promising talent among Emile Tai's children was that of eleven-year-old Adolphe, whose dark browns and blues could, by only a slight stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show...