Word: mansour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. Government began stockpiling Egyptian cotton 15 months ago, it looked to a Senate investigating committee as if one Loutfy Mansour, a broker for an Alexandria firm, had an inside track. Out of some $70 million worth bought by the U.S., the committee was told last week, Mansour got a $37 million share...
From Harold Mesibov, a special investigator for the Department of Agriculture, the committee learned that Mansour had the benefit of some intimate contacts with the man who handled the purchases, Clovis Walker, head of the cotton branch in the Production and Marketing Agency of the Agriculture Department. Walker had sent many messages to Mansour; some signed "Eula" had been sent by Walker's wife; others which referred to "the Florida situation" used some kind of code. Walker, who had listed his 1951 income as $17,000, explained this by saying that he had bought $50,000 worth of Florida...
Died. Prince Mansour Ibn Abdul Aziz, 29, Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, a favorite son of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; of uremia; in Neuilly, France. In 1945, with his father, he was entertained by Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Red Sea, was long considered the likely successor to Saudi Arabia's throne...