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2003 Enyimba International F.C. season

Back home in Aba and Abia state, the club financier and state Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu declared a public holiday in honor of The Peoples Elephant.

Absolute Return for Kids

ARK was co-founded by a group of hedge fund financiers including Paul Marshall and Ian Wace of Marshall Wace and Arpad Busson of EIM Group, who is founding chairman of its board of trustees.

Aviva Group Ireland

The sale valued the company at approximately €35 million and saw financier Dermot Desmond as well as CEO Oliver Tattan, senior management and an estimated 35 staff sell their shares, with Tattan alone estimated to have received over €10 million in the sale.

Banco Intercontinental

Báez Figueroa was arrested on May 15, 2003 along with BANINTER vice presidents Marcos Báez Cocco and Vivian Lubrano de Castillo, the secretary of the Board of Directors, Jesús M. Troncoso, and wealthy financier Luis Alvarez Renta, on charges of bank fraud, money laundering and concealing information from the government as part of a massive fraud scheme of more than RD$ 55 billion (USD $2.23 billion).

Bluebird Toys

Financier Sir Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group made an unsolicited bid for the company in January 1998, but was outbid by Mattel acting as a white knight.

Brian Little

William Brian Little (1942–2000), aka Brian Little, financier and founding partner of Forstmann Little & Company

César Batiz

On February 10, 2012, Batiz reported that Jose Rojas, former Venezuelan finance minister and former Venezuelan representative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, had denied any connection to a “fraudulent scheme” engineered by Venezuelan-American financier Illaramendi Francisco and involving funds from Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).

Charles O'Malley

Charles J. O'Malley (1866–after 1939), Irish financier and newspaper reporter in the United States

East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad

The initial 14.1-mile (2.25-kilometer) run through the Appalachian Mountains from Johnson City to Hampton, Tennessee via Elizabethton was completed on August 22, 1881 by Pennsylvania-based financier Ario Pardee, and the technical expertise of Thomas Matson (the noted railway engineer); a line extension to Cranberry opened on July 3, 1882.

Eastern Hills High School

Allen Stanford, global financier accused of defrauding billions from investors.

Economic history of World War I

J.P. Morgan & Co. of New York was the major American financier for the Allies, and worked closely with French bankers.

Edgar Kaiser

Edgar Kaiser, Jr (1942–2012), financier and owner of the Denver Broncos football team

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Ernest Thiel

Ernest Jacques Thiel (Norrköping 18 August 1859 – Stockholm 6 January 1947) was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thielska galleriet (the Thiel Gallery).

Friends of Israel Initiative

They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.

Gallatin Bank Building

John Jacob Astor was one of the bank's organizers and he was instrumental in persuading financier, Albert Gallatin, to become its first president.

George Schuster

Sir George Ernest Schuster (1881–1982), British barrister, financier, colonial administrator and Liberal politician

George Watts

George Washington Watts (1851–1921), American manufacturer, financier and philanthropist

Giovanni Volpi

He inherited a fortune, at the age of 24, from his father, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, a politician financier and founder of the renowned Venice Film Festival.

Grinnell Peninsula

It was discovered by the First Grinnell Expedition and named "Grinnell Land", after the financier of Arctic explorations Henry Grinnell.

Hans de Witte

Hans de Witte (1583-1630) was a German financier who was the main financial backer of Albrecht von Wallenstein's army during the Thirty Years War.

Henry Christy

Christy was born at Kingston upon Thames, the second son of William Miller Christy of Woodbines, a Quaker banker who started out in hat manufacture with interests in Stockport, before becoming a financier.

Henry F. Dimock

He married Susan Collins Whitney, whose siblings included Henry Melville Whitney, industrialist; William Collins Whitney, financier and Secretary of the Navy: and Lucy Collins "Lily" Whitney, wife of banker Charles T. Barney.

Hryhoriy Nemyria

2001-2005 - local Ukrainian head of board of directors at the International Renaissance Foundation, which is a part of the Open Society Institute of the American financier and philanthropist George Soros.

James Paton

James A. Patten (1852–1928), American financier and grain merchant

Joe's Palace

Sir Michael Gambon as Elliot Graham, Joe's employer - a billionaire financier.

John Bond Trevor

John Bond Trevor (1822 – 1890) was an American financier and Wall Street pioneer.

John Carter Brown Library

The original building was expanded in 1990, with a donation by New Jersey financier, philanthropist, and Brown alumnus Finn M. W. Caspersen (B.A. 1963).

John Crosby Brown

John Crosby Brown (1838 – June 25, 1909) was a partner in the investment bank Brown Bros. & Co., which was founded by his father James Brown and his uncles, the sons of Alexander Brown of Baltimore.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

His paternal Great Grandfather was Sir John Pender, the submarine communications cables pioneer who founded the Eastern Telegraph Company and other Worldwide Telegraph Companies, which became Cable & Wireless, and was the lead financier in the first successful laying of the Transatlantic Telegraph in 1866.

Joseph L. Galloway

Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, financier Dick Strong, and 7th Cavalry veterans John Henry Irsfeld, and Dennis Deal were in attendance.

Julius Bloedel

In 1911, he and two new partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, came to Canada and began acquiring large blocks of forests on British Columbia's Vancouver Island.

Kazarian

Paul Kazarian, an Armenian-American investor, financier, businessperson, and philanthropist

Lionel Cohen

Lionel Louis Cohen (1832–1887), English financier, politician, and communal worker

MacMillan Bloedel

In 1911 Julius Bloedel, a Seattle lawyer, along with his two partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, began acquiring large blocks of Vancouver Island forests.

Marcell Nemes

Marcell or Marczell Nemes (4 May 1866, Jánoshalma - 28 October 1930, Budapest) was a Hungarian financier, art collector and art dealer.

Nabil Sayadi

He is accused that he transferred 200,000 Euros to Al-Qaeda financier Mohammed Zouaydi, which caused him to be placed on FBI and United Nations watch-lists along with his wife and GRF secretary Patricia Vinck.

Nemir Kirdar

Nemir A. Kirdar is a Turkish descent Iraqi businessman and financier, he is the executive chairman & CEO of Investcorp, a private equity investment group operating out of New York, London and Bahrain.

Neutral Democratic Party

On October 15, 2007, Prachai Liewpairat, formerly Royalist People's Party Secretary-general and financier, was elected as the party's leader, and Anongwan Thepsuthin, Somsak's wife, was elected as the party's secretary-general.

Norton Clapp

In 1961 he joined Bagley Wright, contractor Howard S. Wright, architect John Graham, and financier Ned Skinner as investors in the Pentagram Corporation which was to build and own the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair.

Robert Vesco

In 1970, Vesco began a successful takeover bid for Investors Overseas Service, Ltd., a mutual fund investment firm with holdings of $1.5 billion run by financier Bernard Cornfeld, who had run into trouble with the SEC.

Rochester and State Line Railroad

Vanderbilt and the New York Central and Hudson River contended, often in dramatic terms, against Fisk, Gould, and Drew's Erie Railroad.

Samuel Bernard

In order that the King would not have to stoop to receive the financier in an audience, the Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmarets (1648-1721), carefully choreographed a meeting which took place at Marly.

Sportitalia

The financier Tarak Ben Ammar bought the frequencies in collaboration with the satellite channel Eurosport.

Talkin Man

A week before the Kentucky Derby, owners Helen Stollery and Kinghaven Farms sold a one-third interest in Talkin Man to Vancouver, British Columbia, financier Peter Wall.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

The manuscript was kept at Abbotsford after Scott's death, but was bought by the financier J. P. Morgan around 1900, and is now in the Morgan Library in New York.

USS PCS-1376

PCS-1376 was laid down on 13 October 1942 at the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation in Whitestone, New York; launched on 3 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Flipse; and commissioned on 9 July 1943, with Lieutenant (j.g.) Jack Pierpont Morgan, III, USNR, son of the American financier J. P. Morgan, Jr., in command.

Vivelin of Strasbourg

(d. after 1347) was an Alsatian Jewish financier in the 14th century, presumably one of the richest persons within the Holy Roman Empire in that time.

Ward C. Pitfield, Jr.

(born September 6, 1925) is a retired Canadian financier and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.

Ypiranga incident

Money from the American financier and Huerta supporter John Wesley De Kay finally achieved a release.


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