Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend, Harry Fischer, began their partnership as booksellers and art dealers in London. Lloyd astutely realized that, with postwar taxation and the wartime ruin of landed estates, the great English collectors of the prewar years would now become sellers. He gained access to them and their collections through David Somerset, heir presumptive to the Duke of Beaufort. Over the past two decades, Somerset-who hobnobs with such figures as David Rockefeller and Aristotle Onassis-has been invaluable to Lloyd, steering collections and clients toward him and, best of all, introducing him to the Italian auto magnate Giovanni Agnelli, an impassioned...
...SOMERSET MAUGHAM AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM by ROBERT LORIN CALDER 324 pages. Doubleday...
...losers better." McCall's was divided into four profit centers-printing, magazine and book publishing, home-sewing patterns and data processing-and the manager of each was made responsible for its success. The profitable liquor distributorships were taken from Canada Dry and put under a new company, Somerset Importers, Ltd. Mahoney sold off most of the uneconomical bottling plants to franchisers; turning around from a loss four years ago, Canada Dry had pretax profits of more than $9,000,000 in fiscal...
Murder trials do not come cheap, and because witnesses would have to be brought from Florida, New Jersey and Indiana, estimates ran as high as $25,000. That is more than one-third of the entire amount that Somerset County spends on its sheriff's and prosecutor's offices in a normal year. Some officials claimed that the county simply could not afford the trial, but they failed in all efforts to get special funds from the state. Nonetheless, the county prosecutor, Robert Horsey, 39, vowed: "We will prosecute this case properly whether we have the money...
...less than 24 hours King was recaptured at his mother's house in Chesapeake, which means Somerset County still confronts the expense of a trial, plus the small added cost of extraditing the prisoner from Virginia...