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...One we missed: Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, by Andrew Ross Sorkin....
...Mars’s bet on petcare stemmed from a mission that dates back to Forrest Mars Sr’s assertion in 1947 that a company’s purpose was to generate “a mutuality of benefits” for its employees, suppliers, distributors...
...The elegant review by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of Paddy Manning’s book The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (Life & Arts, November 19) refers to an idea that Lachlan Murdoch’s siblings...
...Henry Sr helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson; Henry Jr would marry a member of the Lehman family....
...The Mars credo, that it should provide a “mutuality of benefits” to consumers, distributors, employees, shareholders and others, was laid down in 1947 by Forrest Mars Sr, the son of Frank and inventor of...
...Gates’s father was a well-known lawyer and his mother came from a prominent banking family, while Buffett Sr was a member of the US House of Representatives....
...Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) by Ron Chernow: “In these days of great angst about the free market, I recommend this captivating biography of an archetypical capitalist, who built a storied fortune on hard work...
...andrew.edgecliffe-johnson@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Zoom church services are no substitute for real thing / From Alistair Budd, Llanvair-Discoed, Monmouthshire, UK...
...Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, was last month forced to resign after a sexual harassment investigation....
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...Ford Sr wasn’t alive, of course, in the 1960s....
...The Mars chairmanship rotates around the branches of the family tree, and Mr Badger (son of Jackie, grandson of Forrest Sr, great-grandson of founder Frank) is near the end of his second three-year tour....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US business editor Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...of SRS leader Vojislav Seselj....
...Mr Nikolic and Mr Vucic co-founded the SNS when they resigned from the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) a nationalist grouping....
...Breaching that threshold marks a revival in fortunes for SRS, once Serbia’s largest party, after losing all its seats in parliament in 2012....
...Here’s an image Demetri took at a recent Trump rally that illustrates the Republican candidates connection with the white supremacist movement: Graham notes that even as Trump Sr has toned down some (but...
...(German Sr himself completed five features before this, all successes of opaque esteem.) Imagine you’re in Purgatory: it’s medieval and it’s on another planet....
...Mr Vucic broke away from the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) six years ago to form the governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and was elected in 2012 on a pledge to seek membership of the EU....
...In actuality they had their own London address, albeit funded by Ruskin Sr. But that would spoil the Oedipal snake pit idea....
...Further coverage from Nigel Andrews in Venice at www.ft.com/film...
...She resembles Lon Chaney Sr in drag. The rest seems a little faint by comparison....
...Since he loves this Mancunian band almost religiously – they did die and rise again – The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, commissioned by the SRs, is deferential sometimes to the point of dippiness....
...No wonder Holiff Sr finally killed himself. (No spoiler. We’re told this at the start.) No wonder, too, that this film plays like a non-fiction Walk the Line with script input by Eugene O’Neill....
...From 1992 to 2008, Tabakovic represented the far-right Radical Party (SRS) in parliament, and followed Nikolic to the newly-founded SNS in 2008 after Nikolic’s volte-face to a moderate and pro-European stance...
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