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Lester Crown, the Glossary

Lester Crown (born June 7, 1925) is an American businessman and is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (died 1990), who created the Material Service Corporation with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959.^[1]

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Crown Family
General Dynamics
New York Yankees owners
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Academy of Achievement

The American Academy of Achievement, colloquially known as the Academy of Achievement, is a nonprofit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest-achieving people in diverse fields and gives them the opportunity to meet one another.

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Alltel

Alltel was a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States.

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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

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Aspen Daily News

The Aspen Daily News is a 7-day-a-week newspaper in the ski resort of Aspen, Colorado that started in 1978.

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Aspen Skiing Company

The Aspen Skiing Company, known locally as Ski Co, is a commercial enterprise based in Aspen, Colorado.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Bank One Corporation

Bank One Corporation was an American bank founded in 1968 and at its peak the sixth-largest bank in the United States.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician, serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office in 1996–1999 and 2009–2021.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Catholic Theological Union

Catholic Theological Union (CTU) is a Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Council on Global Affairs

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an American international affairs think tank based in Chicago, Illinois, with a stated mission of "increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs and empowering more people to help shape our global future.".

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Commercial Club of Chicago

The Commercial Club of Chicago is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) social welfare organization founded in 1877 with a mission to promote the social and economic vitality of the metropolitan area of Chicago.

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Continental Illinois

The Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company was at one time the seventh-largest commercial bank in the United States as measured by deposits, with approximately $40 billion in assets.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan.

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First Chicago Bank

First Chicago Bank was a Chicago-based retail and commercial bank tracing its roots to 1863, when it received one of the first charters under the then new National Bank Act.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Forbes 400

The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest Americans is a list published by Forbes magazine of the wealthiest 400 American citizens who own assets in the U.S., ranked by net worth.

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G. David Schine

Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine (September 11, 1927 – June 19, 1996), was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who became a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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George Steinbrenner

George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1973 until his death in 2010. Lester Crown and George Steinbrenner are American billionaires and new York Yankees owners.

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Gunnar Peterson

Gunnar Peterson is an American personal trainer, author, businessman, and actor best known for his work with professional athletes and celebrities. Lester Crown and Gunnar Peterson are Crown Family.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Crown

Henry Crown (June 13, 1896 – August 14, 1990) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Lester Crown and Henry Crown are American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent and Crown Family.

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Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton.

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James Crown

James Schine Crown (June 25, 1953 – June 25, 2023) was an American businessman and heir. Lester Crown and James Crown are American billionaires and American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.

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John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

The John H. Stroger Jr.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware.

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Junius Myer Schine

Junius Myer Schine (February 20, 1890 – May 9, 1971) was a New York theater and hotel magnate whose holdings comprised 185 movie theaters, notably, Glove Theatre, and Schines Auburn Theatre, and several hotels, including Ambassador Hotel.

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Limited partnership

A limited partnership (LP) is a type of partnership with general partners who have a right to manage the business and limited partners who have no right to manage the business but have only limited liability for its debts.

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Lurie Children's Hospital

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital and commonly known as Lurie Children's, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States.

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Master of Business Administration

A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration.

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Maytag

The Maytag Corporation is an American home and commercial appliance company.

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New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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O'Hare International Airport

Chicago O'Hare International Airport is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district.

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RC Cola

RC Cola (short for Royal Crown Cola) is a cola-flavored carbonated beverage owned in the United States by Keurig Dr Pepper and internationally by RC Global Beverages, Inc.

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th Street and 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Standard Club

The Standard Club is a private country club, founded as the Concordia Association in 1867.

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Susan Crown

Susan M. Crown (born 1960/1961) is an American businessperson. Lester Crown and Susan Crown are American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent and Crown Family.

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Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University (TAU; אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, Universitat Tel Aviv, جامعة تل أبيب, Jami’at Tel Abib) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

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The Lincoln Academy of Illinois

The Lincoln Academy of Illinois is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to recognizing contributions made by living Illinoisans.

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The World's Billionaires

The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking of people who are billionaires, i.e., they are considered to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more, by the American business magazine Forbes.

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Trans World Airlines

Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.

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USC Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) a compelling voice for education and action.

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Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע Machon Weizmann LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Crown

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Lester Crown, the Glossary

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See also

Crown Family

General Dynamics

New York Yankees owners

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni

References