Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret nocturnal meetings last spring in the Vatican's baroque Apostolic Palace. Two were top cardinals in the church hierarchy. Two were key participants: Pope Paul VI and Michele Sindona, the tough Sicilian lawyer who in two decades has risen from obscurity to eminence as a financier and industrialist. It is almost unheard of for a Pope personally to conduct the church's business affairs, but this was no ordinary occasion. Sindona and Pope Paul closed a deal that started a shift of profound consequence in the Holy See's management of its vast temporal wealth...
Eventually, anyone young and healthy in Holland was likely to be questioned by the Nazis. Boldly, Lind-Overbeek escaped to Germany. He worked, drank, survived bombardment, whored and eventually landed a surreal job carrying reports from an industrialist's factory, which did metallurgical research, to the German Air Ministry. When the war ended, he set off, walking, for Holland. At the border, he molted another skin, persuading British officials that he was really Jakov Chaklan, born in Palestine. With a new identity card, he journeyed to Marseille and smuggled himself aboard a ship loaded with refugees bound for Israel...
...because of the job, but because they want to live in California. Some top executives live here but commute to New York for five days a week. In fact, the speed of travel and communications today has ended the inferiority complex the California businessman used to have. The California industrialist is liberated from that old provincial feeling. And he shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested in the body out here. The California businessman is a rounded guy." I watch Mahoney stroll through the ferns and I wonder . . . maybe his bottom drawer...
Gund Hall is named for the late George Gund, Cleveland banker and industrialist. His family and foundation contributed a major part of the funds for the building. John L. Loeb, leader of a recent national campaign to raise funds for the School, donated the Frances Loeb Library, named for his wife. Money for the William Thomas Piper Auditorium was given by the descendants of the manufacturer of the Piper Cub airplane...
Anybody could support the one day Moratorium. A strong political stand wasn't necessary; for example, Republican Governor Sargent and Dave Dellinger (now on trial for conspiracy to incite to riot) endorsed it. You didn't even have to play by its rules; Jerald Grossman, Boston industrialist and originator of the Moratorium idea, closed his envelope company for only an hour on October...