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Whatever his short-range tactics, Bronfman's eventual goal might well be more psychological than financial -- a search for success in some field more socially prestigious than the liquor business that began with grandfather Sam Bronfman. In 1919 Sam took over a hotel business upon the death of Yechiel Bronfman, who had brought the family to Canada 20-odd years earlier from Czarist Russia. Sam quickly took advantage of Prohibition in the neighboring U.S. He sold liquor to U.S. bootleggers and stockpiled much more whiskey; then, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933, he could slake American thirsts legally...
...Sam" wound up with the foundation of a family fortune that has since grown to around $4 billion, but troubled by a thought he was still voicing decades later: "How long do you think it'll be before they stop calling me a goddam bootlegger?" Seeking respectability and reacting against the strong anti-Semitism of the Canadian elite, he plunged into Jewish affairs, raising huge sums in the 1930s and '40s to help the Zionist founders of what became Israel. His son Edgar Sr., who became head of Seagram's U.S. operations in 1957 and of the whole company...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...
...remember that ((Kelso is)) a father of two young women who are very sensitive of their father's role in this matter" -- whatever that meant. John Warner of Virginia worried about the hardship Kelso's wife would bear if he were to get $17,000 a year less. Sam Nunn got tangled up in sailing analogies -- Kelso's opponents were putting him in a rowboat and tying an anchor to his leg and saying he "should have been down on the bottom of the ship" -- and concluded that the Senate should not take two stars away from Kelso because...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...