Word: patino
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...this was not a final reckoning. The implication was that the tin companies, if they agree to dicker instead of fighting the regime by litigation and fomenting embargoes abroad, might still wind up with some cash compensation for their shareholders (including the U.S. citizens who reportedly own 26% of Patino Mines & Enterprises stock...
...being $400,000 behind in support payments. She wanted a settlement before he left the country. "I'm going to ... Paris this afternoon," pleaded Patińo. "No, you're not," snapped the judge. "You're going to city prison unless you furnish bond." By evening Patino was free to leave for Paris. He had raised the $250,000 bond, high enough, said the judge, to assure a return engagement with the court and his wife's budget worries...
...Gordon Rowse, 12, of Ogden, Utah, the fifth annual national marble tournament, over Henry Patino, 12 (and 1,500,000 other youngsters), 7-3, 0-7, 7-1; at Albuquerque, N.Mex...
Antenor No. 2. Cristina's Antenor is the son of the late Bolivian Tin King Simón Patiño. Though the Patino holdings have been estimated at a comfortable $1 billion, Antenor has never been profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia's ambassador to London). Cristina managed, however, to separate him from an even half-million dollars after a 1944 separation, won a court judgment for another $500,000 by proving some indiscretions with a brunette model named Francesca Simms in 1945. This irritated Antenor to the point of trying...
...world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman of his board...