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...following day, Jan. 16, the New York group was summoned to Washington by Treasury Secretary Miller to listen to a new Iranian proposal. Thomas Lebrecque, vice chairman of Chase Manhattan, Alexander Vagliano, head of Morgan Guaranty's international finance operations, and 19 other bankers and attorneys took their places at 11:00 a.m. in a seventh-floor State Department conference room with Miller and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. The new offer looked interesting. Bank Markazi suggested that when the Iranian funds were unfrozen, it would repay with interest outstanding loans that had been negotiated with about 100 international...
Solemnly Death came last week to Athanase Vagliano, on the golden Riviera at minute, lovely Roquebrune. Everyone of the smart world has at least passed the place. As your "Blue Train" from Paris halts momentarily at Monte Carlo and then chuffs on to Menton, the prettiest station through which it speeds, the one with the neatest garden and the fairest palms, is Roquebrune. In the great house just visible through dense foliage lived ''The Greek," Europe's "Prince of Gamblers," and there he died?rich...
...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
Awful legends naturally enshrouded "The Greek." His ancestors are said to have been Byzantine pirates, but Athanase Vagliano would admit to no more than that he was born in Athens "probably...
Died. Athanase Vagliano, called "The Greek," famed as the Premier Gambler of Europe; at Roquebrune, French Riviera...