Word: wolfsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louis Symphony Orchestra for one performance with a bid of $3,100. "I'm going to wrap it all up-have a birthday party for the baby, an open house for the new wing, and I'm going to conduct Happy Birthday." Mrs. Robert Wolfson paid $2,000 for a walk-on part in the TV series, Mission Imposible; St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publisher G. Duncan Bauman bid $2,500 for a Chinese dinner with and by Danny Kaye; and others fought over a chance to play tennis with Jack Kramer, to write a bylined 500-word article...
...worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...
Helmsley is busy building two Manhattan skyscrapers and a hotel that will face Central Park. This may seem like enough to keep him occupied, but his appetite for real estate is still growing. Last month, he agreed to buy the stock of the Furman-Wolfson Trust, which owns property valued at $167 million in a dozen cities. It will cost him, he figures, $75 million in cold cash...
...millionaires' conference," as it was called, was almost as evangelical as it was economic. British Banker Sir Siegmund Warburg announced a new holding company that would pump an initial $100 million in capital into Israeli businesses. Sir Isaac Wolfson, head of Britain's Great Universal Stores, personally got fellow delegates to sign individual pledges of $24,000 to set up a company to insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving...
...federal law requiring registration of sales of "control" stock is believed to be violated frequently, and the case was a clear signal that the Government intends to start cracking down. For Multimillionaire Wolfson, who plans to appeal his conviction, the trouble could be just beginning. Next February he, Gerbert and three other associates go on trial - on federal charges of fraud, perjury and falsification of official reports-involving Merritt-Chapman, which is now in the process of liquidation. Insisted Wolfson in court last week: "I certainly never intended to do anything wrong...