Trading With The Enemy Act Prescott Bush
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Prescott Bush $76.47 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 October 8, 1972) was a Wall Street executive banker, and a United States Senator representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of 43rd President George W. Bush. Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush. Samuel Bush was a railroad executive, then a steel company president, and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 124 Publication Date: 2010/05/19 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.29 inches |
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Trading with the Enemy (Paperback) $28.89 The journalist-author of On the Border provides an entertaining, firsthand tour of Cuba, describing his experiences drinking with bartenders who knew Hemingway, traveling with a baseball team, touring Guantanamo Bay, and visiting with Cubans of all kinds, in a revised edition of the classic travelogue. Reprint. |
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Prescott House Museum $76.47 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Prescott House is a historic house located in Starrs Point, Nova Scotia which is part of the Nova Scotia Museum. Built between 1812 and 1816 by Charles Ramage Prescott as the centrepiece of his country estate called Acacia Grove, it is one of the best preserved Georgian houses in Atlantic Canada. Prescott, a wealthy merchant from Halifax, Nova Scotia purchased the land in 1811 when he took early retirement from his shipping and trading career. He used Acacia Grove as a base for agricultural experiments, importing a wide variety of plants, especially apple varieties which he shared freely with area growers. When Prescott died in 1859, the house was purchased and maintained for several decades by the Kaye family. However later owners neglected the house and by the 1890s, it fell into ruin. In 1931 the house was purchased by Mary Allison Prescott, the great granddaughter of Charles Prescott. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2010/10/18 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.18 inches |
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Jonathan Bush $82.85 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jonathan James Bush (born May 6, 1931), is an American banker and former Republican Party fundraiser. Jonathan Bush graduated from Hotchkiss School and Yale University. He is the fourth child of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush and is the brother of Prescott Pressy Bush, Jr. (19222010), the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush (1924), Nancy Bush (1926), and William Bucky Bush (1938). He is the uncle of the 43rd President George W. Bush. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2011/01/15 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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Wrongful Trading $92.4 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Wrongful trading is a type of civil wrong found in UK insolvency law, under s 214 Insolvency Act 1986. It was introduced to enable contributions to be obtained for the benefit of creditors from those responsible for mismanagement of the insolvent company. The principle of wrongful trading was introduced in the Insolvency Act 1986, to complement the concept of fraudulent trading. Unlike fraudulent trading, wrongful trading needs no finding of intent to defraud (which requires a heavy burden of proof). Wrongful trading is therefore a less serious, and more common offence than fraudulent trading. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2011/01/13 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.31 inches |
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Defying Empire : Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York $18.32 No Synopsis Available |
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Trading with the Enemy by Miller, Tom Edition , 2 $21.99 “Havana knew me by my shoes,” begins Tom Miller’s lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the author presents us with a rare insight into one of the world’s only Communist countries. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favorite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba’s food shortages, exotic sensuality, and baseball addiction as he follows the scents of Graham Greene, José Marti, Ernest Hemingway, and the Mambo Kings. The result of this informed and adventurous journey is a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a land and people too long shielded from American eyes. |
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Trading with the Enemy by Miller, Tom Edition , 0 $13.49 Miller spent the better half of last year roaming the cities, towns, rural byways, and coastline of Cuba. He talked with writers, musicians, teachers, doctors, bureaucrats, and sugarcane workers. From his many adventurous travels, he has fashioned a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a people we do not know. Maps. |
