Word: moneyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towering moneyman to impress the gnomes of Europe...
...week, and forecasts are that eventually only 800 will remain open. Content in the past to let their beer sell itself, some German brewers have now begun to advertise. Duisburg-based König-Brauerei, for example, has a campaign that uses such luminaries as Actress Maria Schell and Moneyman Hermann Abs, former board chairman of the Deutsche Bank, who are, the ads note, "loyal to the king...
...state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about a bad moneyman in London and how he uses a white mercenary to topple an African dictator and get the local platinum concession does not really get going until about page 384. The last 24 pages are almost worth waiting for, though, and the far-flung film sure to result will no doubt...
...claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco. According to the indictment, Stans and Mitchell had tried to help Vesco with the SEC after the moneyman had made a secret $200,000 cash contribution to Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...
...former Secretary of Commerce, had in a measure won their gamble-though not necessarily their cases. They had indeed been their own best witnesses against the Government's charges that they had plotted to gain special favors in Washington for Financier Robert Vesco, 38, in exchange for the moneyman's secret $200,000 cash contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...