Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation was organized last spring by a group called the American Festival Committee, with headquarters in a dingy building on Bleecker St. in downtown Manhattan. People wishing to attend the festival had to make arrangements through this committee; the Hungarian government was unusually willing to approve all visa applications made through the group. Anyone who wished to go to the festival and could play his way was welcome--the only restriction was that no purely "observers" were allowed, all had to be members of the delegation...
...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
Obsessively shy, Heineman has always wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...
Three years later, March sent an emissary to Heineman in Manhattan with a new ultimatum: if he would not yield Barcelona, he could expect blows at CHADE, another SOFINA subsidiary in Spain. CHADE, though it owned no interests in Spain, used a Madrid office to collect the profits from the huge power interests it owned in Argentina (CADE). Heineman hastily moved CHADE to Luxembourg, where it transformed itself into SODEC (an identity it had used in a previous move to save its financial skin during Spain's civil...
...Manhattan, Dannie Heineman shook his head in amazement at what he called Franco's "stupidity" in letting Old Smuggler March go so far. Said Heineman: "This will not only cost Franco all the confidence and all the credits he hoped to get, it will scare all U.S. capital from investment anywhere in Europe...