Word: pritzkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pritzker & Pritzker is a Chicago law firm that has not had a case in years, and could not care less. "We neither seek nor accept clients," says Partner Jay A. Pritzker. "There would be too much conflict of interest and not enough time." That is quite an understatement. By astutely minding their own business, the entrepreneurial Pritzkers have put together a portfolio of business interests with assets approaching $500 million. The Pritzkers-Jay, Brothers Robert and Donald, plus Father Abram and Uncle Jack-run one of the nation's largest and least-known family enterprises...
...Location. With a little private banking business thrown in, the family more than meets its goal of being, as Jack Pritzker puts it, "busy and successful." Busiest of all the Pritzker holdings nowadays is its 57%-owned Hyatt Corp., which in twelve years has grown from a single unit to a chain of 14 hotels and 40 motels. Run from headquarters in Burlingame, Calif., by Donald Pritzker, 35, Hyatt increased its earnings last year by 78% over the year before, to $1.5 million...
Though far smaller than such chains as Sheraton (1967 revenues: $286.6 million), Hyatt has achieved a growth rate that Don Pritzker claims is "tops in the industry." By keeping to key locations near airports and in downtown areas where hotel business is already booming, the chain hopes to keep that growth continuing. This year alone Hyatt is building ten more motels and expanding its standout success, Atlanta's handsome and unusual Regency Hyatt House. Little more than a year old, Regency House has already become a major Atlanta attraction. Its interior balconies rise 22 stories around a glass-roofed...
...David Ferry, Eng. John Graham, Math Laurel Furumoto, Psy. Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick, His. Jean Harrison, Bio. Walter Houghton, Eng. Gabriele Jackson, Eng. Owen Jander, Music Florence McCulloch, French Eleanor McLaughlin, His. Jeanette McPherrin, French Joan Melvin, Bio. Genworth Mofett, Art Torsten Norvig, Math Barry Phillips, Eng. David Pritzker, Math Ruth Anna Putnam, Phil. Jerome Regnier, Geo. Margaret Robinson, Art Patsy Sampson, Psy. Alice Schafer, Math Patricia Spacks, Eng. George Stambolian, French Richard Wallace...