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Harry Oppenheimer, the billionaire South African businessman who led the world's largest diamond and gold mining companies for a quarter of a century and spoke out against apartheid, has died.
Harry Oppenheimer had never forgotten his economics. This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Harry Oppenheimer” ...
Harry Oppenheimer was a butcher and founded Oppenheimer Meats in New York City. He married Ellen, another German immigrant, and their family business took off.
Harry Oppenheimer, nineteen years old, met a tragic death in an early morning fire yesterday in the apartment house at 579 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn.
After Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer broke records at the box office, James Cameron is working on a nuclear war film of his ...
In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to be made in the ...
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GOLD & DIAMONDS From a massive, block-long building in Johannesburg last week came a discreet announcement that set the trading marts of the world buzzing. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the ...
Surviving on rabbits and reselling flowers for money, she eventually immigrated and met Harry Oppenheimer in NYC. He committed the blasphemous act in the early 1950’s of marrying a non-Jew.
Book Review - In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to ...
As a mining boss, financier, philanthropist and public figure, Harry Oppenheimer straddles the history of 20th-century South Africa.
HARRY OPPENHEIMER, the South African business patriarch who led the world's largest diamond and gold mining companies during the darkest days of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in ...