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...Both he and his father Fred had habitually donated to New York and New Jersey politicians so as to smooth real estate deals....
...There followed breakneck growth under Fred “The Shred” Goodwin and the calamitous implosion of RBS in the 2008 global financial crisis....
...“Whereas [Bauhaus founder Walter] Gropius removed all the history books from the library to somewhere dark and difficult to find.” The 1960s ethic was to forget history, to begin anew....
...Also out on Thursday are updates from recruiters PageGroup and Robert Walters....
...“We really need to be able to act in a non-bureaucratic way, and I did not get the impression that this was fully understood early on,” says Fred Schweikert, head of corporate clients at Volksbank Odenwald...
...The 63-year-old billionaire failed to buy the rival Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team in 2012 after being beaten in an auction by a group of investors led by Mark Walter of Guggenheim Partners, the asset...
...Sterling Partners, the investment vehicle of owner Fred Wilpon, is negotiating a deal whereby Mr Cohen would increase his investment in the Mets, the team confirmed on Wednesday....
...He was trumped at the last minute by Guggenheim Baseball Group, led by Mark Walter of Guggenheim Partners....
...Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity, by Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press, RRP£30/$35 The scientific and industrial revolutions were the most significant events...
...Did you know that Trump’s father Fred was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York in 1927?...
...By 1980, he was writing speeches for Walter Mondale, the vice-president, who remained a life-long friend in spite of being a Democrat....
...In 1940, a former stockbroker called Fred Schwed had published a book titled Where are the Customers’ Yachts?, an acerbic take on Wall Street that has since become a classic....
...They summed up the effect on a hypothetical director named Fred: “All it takes is a little buttering up of Fred over the course of year — a couple of compliments above the norm, an extra personal favour,...
...Baader-Meinhof revisited: Fred Studemann looks at the 40th anniversary of the radical left terror gang and examines how Germany's struggle to combat terrorism today is drawing on lessons from that era....
...One of our general managers Fred Sirieix (Maître d’ on Channel 4’s First Dates) organised a sponsored run and raised £30,000 to start the charity....
...Comediennes Fanny and Stella, nés Fred, a trainee solicitor, and Ernest, a male prostitute, are a popular sensation “the Funny He-She Ladies”, and acquitted when prosecuted for buggery in 1870....
...Fred Goodwin — to build and lose a FTSE 100 company? Wow. Interesting. Otherwise, [Brazilian racing driver] Ayrton Senna. What’s on your summer reading list?...
...While introducing Mr Ruffin at a rally in Iowa this year, Mr Trump paid his partner perhaps his ultimate compliment — the same one, he told the crowd, that his late father Fred used to bestow on his son....
...Fred, his 18-year-old lieutenant, is a former male prostitute....
...There have been several biographies of Vidal, mostly written by their protagonist, notably in the remarkable memoir Palimpsest (1995), as well as a less remarkable authorised 1999 biography by Fred Kaplan...
...The occasion was the opening of a new clubhouse, and an America vs England pro-celebrity doubles match in which Chaplin and Fred Perry were to play Marx and Ellsworth Vines....
...Fred Goodwin, disgraced former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, was notorious for what were nicknamed “morning beatings”, where he focused rage and ridicule on his lieutenants....
...Almost always a T-shirt for my friend Fred in Berlin. Now that he has a job in the public eye (in an ice-cream parlour), he can show off his coolest T-shirts daily....
...Ms Weymouth, whose great-grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the Post for $825,000 in a 1933 bankruptcy auction, was replaced as publisher by Fred Ryan, founding chief executive of Politico, which was launched...
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
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