Sentences with phrase «of oil magnate»

Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a Tufts University economist and great granddaughter of the oil magnate, said she and other Rockefeller descendants were backing four shareholder resolutions and urging other investors to do the same.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has approved the appointment of an oil magnate and philanthropist, Chief Tunde Afolabi, MFR, as the pioneer Chancellor of the...

Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a Tufts University economist and great granddaughter of the oil magnate, said she and other Rockefeller descendants were backing four shareholder resolutions and urging other investors to do the same.

Though the title and release date are still TBD, what we do know is that it will be a «multi-layered family saga exploring class, manners, money, marriage, sex, and secrets within the moneyed world of oil magnates and socialites in a freewheeling, 1960s, Texas.»

Not exact matches

Since oil magnate John D. Rockefeller founded the University of Chicago in 1890, the private school has established a global presence with international centers in Beijing, New Delhi, Paris, and Hong Kong.

The second - priciest sale overall was the $ 50 million purchase of 15 East 64th Street by Russian oil magnate Leonard Blavatnik.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

Ragusa and Isaacs threw their support to supermarket / oil magnate John Catsimatidis, who's been cooperating with the feds in a scandal that also heavily involves Vince Tabone, Ragusa's vice chairman and an employee of both Catsimatidis's Red Apple Group and his campaign.

The Department of State Service said in Abuja on Saturday, that oil magnate, Cheif Ifeanyi is in its custody.

The mystery behind the alleged $ 620,000 bribe which the suspended House of Representatives Lawmaker, Hon. Farouk Lawan collected from an Oil magnate, Mr Femi Otedola may...

As early as 1942, Wiener had been approached by Frank Fremont - Smith, the chief executive of the Macy Foundation (a charitable organisation founded from the fortune of Joseph Macy, a Quaker oil magnate) with the suggestion that the newly developing concepts of feedback and automatic control might have applications in the field of mental health.

Born into a very different elite in 1957 — his parents were Anglo - Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day - Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Ealing Studios boss Sir Michael Balcon — Daniel Day - Lewis has become the actor of choice to play American giants, whether winning Oscar number two as malign oil magnate Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), or resurrecting a wearily human, benign Abraham Lincoln for Spielberg.

The holiday trio, all presented on 35 mm, include: Magnificent Obsession, Sirk's dazzling drama about a reckless playboy who finds his life entwined with that of the woman whose husband's death he caused; Written on the Wind, a visually lush melodrama about a Texas oil magnate's downfall at the hands of his alcoholic son and wanton daughter; and All That Heaven Allows, a heartbreaking examination of love and class taboos in small - town America in the 1950s.

The story centers around a new sheriff near the Southeast US swamplands, Kyle Williams, who was selected due to his youth and perceived inexperience, which will make the oil development by a greedy magnate named Schist (Jack Thompson, The Assassination of Richard Nixon) much easier.

Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.

Still, modern American movies don't get much better than his epic tale of a tragically misanthropic oil magnate.

Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller used his monetary sway to mold the education of his workforce at the turn of the 20th century.

But, what makes this sedan so exclusive that the sheikhs of West Asia, oil magnates, corporate honchos, world leaders and Hollywood movie stars love to be seen in it?

Now living in Manhattan, the powerful magnate is head of a multi-national oil company.

Dasha Zhukova — famous for being the daughter of a Russian oil magnate, a stunningly beautiful celebutante, and for almost single - handedly piloting a Russian art renaissance through the operations of her outstanding Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.

Coal, oil and gas magnate William I. Koch, of West Palm Beach, FL and Hyannisport, is the third «Advocates» director listed on the incorporation papers.

In the period around both the 2006 and 2011 elections, mining magnate Gertler secured mining and oil assets at prices that were often well below market value, before later striking lucrative deals for those assets with the likes of London - listed giant commodities trader Glencore.

A review by energy magnate Sir Ian Wood on behalf of the UK government suggests there's still around 24 billion barrels North Sea oil waiting to be tapped.

These coal, oil, and gas magnates include Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, and Larry Nichols, head of Devon Energy.

Coal magnate John Rich admits that because of ballooning costs and lack of government support, he has given up on setting a timeline for the construction of the Gilberton Coal - to - Clean - Fuels and Power Project, the nation's first coal - to - oil plant, in Gilberton, Pennsylvania.