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Harry Oppenheimer had never forgotten his economics. This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Harry Oppenheimer ...
JOHANNESBURG -- Harry Oppenheimer, 91, a South African mining magnate who led the world's largest diamond and gold mining companies for a quarter century, died Aug. 19 at a hospital here.
Harry Oppenheimer was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read PPE. Roy Harrod was his tutor. Oppenheimer's 21st birthday party, held at the Spreadeagle in Thame, ...
She thinks of Harry. He was her grandfather, who escaped the Nazis in 1937 and came to America, she said. Harry Oppenheimer was a butcher and founded Oppenheimer Meats in New York City.
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.
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 ...
BOOK:Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty by Michael Cardo (Jonathan Ball) As a mining boss, financier, philanthropist and public figure, Harry Oppenheimer straddles the history of ...
FEAR COST HIM HIS LIFE.; Harry Oppenheimer, Though Escape Was Easy, Made Fatal Leap from Window of Burning Building. Share full article. Dec. 28, 1899.
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 ...
Chief among the latter must stand HARRY OPPENHEIMER and his family; that they also fought in a particular manner for the former sets them apart in the gallery of South African patriots.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Harry Oppenheimer, who died Saturday night in a Johannesburg hospital on the verge of his 92nd birthday, was one of the world's truly legendary businessman, for long ...