Word: portfolio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
...blowup had been touched off by smart, ruthless onetime Premier André Tardieu, now a Minister of State (without portfolio), who thought he saw his chance to stage a political comeback by posing as the one Cabinet Minister who would "speak the truth about Stavisky" and tear the veil of official discretion...
...portfolio were nearly 400,000 shares of worthless stock. But he had 14 blocks of stock each with a value of more than $1,000,000. In these 14 he had invested $35,000,000, principally in Guaranty Trust Co. ($6,918,000), Western Union ($4,456,000), Standard Oil of New Jersey ($3,590,000), National Cash Register ($2,762,000). Standard Oil of California ($2,530,000). Miscellaneous holdings : one share of Newport Reading Room common ($400) ; one share of Pocahontas Following Club...
Actually the Ogpu was not abolished but Dictator Stalin deftly changed its spots, leaving its skin much the same. In most European countries the State police is under the Minister of Interior. Last week Comrade Genrikh Grigorevitch Yagoda, Chief of the Ogpu, was transferred to the newly created Soviet portfolio of Commissar of Interior. He took with him the Ogpu staff, somewhat reduced. Censorship blurred details of the spot-changing, but the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") significantly informed Russians that "formation of the Commissariat of Interior does not mean that the campaign against traitors to the Soviet Fatherland and against...
...proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...