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The Ledger
April 27, 2018
From their early involvement in The John Birch Society (daddy Fred Koch being an early member), they continued their rightward march, and by the 1970s, both had plunged into the abyss of a laissez-fairyland plutocracy. With the fervor of religious cultists, they've devoted themselves to the cause ofÃâà...
Salon
April 24, 2018
From their early involvement in The John Birch Society (daddy Fred Koch being an early member), they continued their rightward march, and by the 1970s, both had plunged into the abyss of a laissez-fairyland plutocracy. With the fervor of religious cultists, they've devoted themselves to the cause ofÃâà...
Stillwater News Press
April 20, 2018
From their early involvement in The John Birch Society (daddy Fred Koch being an early member), they continued their rightward march, and by the 1970s, both had plunged into the abyss of a laissez-fairyland plutocracy. With the fervor of religious cultists, they've devoted themselves to the cause ofÃâà...
Huntsville Item
April 19, 2018
From their early involvement in The John Birch Society (daddy Fred Koch being an early member), they continued their rightward march, and by the 1970s, both had plunged into the abyss of a laissez-fairyland plutocracy. With the fervor of religious cultists, they've devoted themselves to the cause ofÃâà...
Newcastle Herald
March 23, 2018
Fred Koch was the kind of father who favoured beating his sons – an account by an anonymous family member describes him whipping his boys “like dogs” – and the kind of husband whose wife Mary was scared of him, according to Fred's fourth and youngest son, Bill. Charles and David grew up rich butÃâà...
Miami New Times
March 23, 2018
Mayer reported in 2016 that family patriarch Fred C. Koch joined with American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis to build the third-largest oil-refinery in Nazi Germany. The project was directly approved by Adolf Hitler and was used to power the Third Reich's army. Mayer reported that the eldest KochÃâà...
Gоldmаn Blоg (blog)
March 22, 2018
Invesco Limited invested 0% of its portfolio in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Koch Indus Incorporated holds 0.02% in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED) or 13,802 shares. Ameritas Investment Prns holds 0% or 2,753 shares in its portfolio. Nwq Inv Ltd Llc reported 3.57M shares. Since December 13, 2017, it had 1Ãâà...
Press Telegraph
March 13, 2018
Art Advsrs holds 0.01% of its portfolio in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED) for 30,148 shares. Hsbc Hldgs Public Limited Liability Corp reported 0% in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Weiss Multi stated it has 0.01% in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Koch Inc stated it has 13,802 shares or 0.02% of all its holdings.
Weekly Register
March 2, 2018
Frontfour Capital Grp Ltd Llc has invested 0.45% of its portfolio in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Koch Incorporated holds 0.02% or 13,802 shares in its portfolio. 56,991 were reported by California State Teachers Retirement Systems. 2,753 were accumulated by Ameritas Invest Partners. Morgan StanleyÃâà...
KL Daily
March 2, 2018
Sg Americas reported 0% of its portfolio in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Koch reported 13,802 shares. Moreover, Teachers Retirement Of The State Of Kentucky has 0% invested in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Louisiana State Employees Retirement Sys has 0% invested in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED) forÃâà...
Progressive.org
February 28, 2018
The committee's first president was former New Jersey Congressman Fred Hartley, co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which authorized states to adopt right-to-work laws. Many of the committee's early leaders were also founders of the John Birch Society, including Fred Koch, the father of Charles andÃâà...
Progressive.org
February 27, 2018
The committee's first president was former New Jersey Congressman Fred Hartley, co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which authorized states to adopt right-to-work laws. Many of the committee's early leaders were also founders of the John Birch Society, including Fred Koch, the father of Charles andÃâà...
Progressive.org
February 27, 2018
The committee's first president was former New Jersey Congressman Fred Hartley, co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which authorized states to adopt right-to-work laws. Many of the committee's early leaders were also founders of the John Birch Society, including Fred Koch, the father of Charles andÃâà...
In These Times
February 22, 2018
Like the Koch brothers' father, Fred Koch, Harry was a big supporter of the far-right, anti-civil rights John Birch Society. He frequently hosted its founder, Robert Welch, for public presentations at the company's Milwaukee headquarters. Today, Bradley is one of the SPN network's biggest benefactors, funneling $133 million toÃâà...
BZ Weekly
February 9, 2018
The Pennsylvania-based Susquehanna Int Group Inc Llp has invested 0% in Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED). Koch reported 13,802 shares. Morgan Stanley holds 0% or 71,869 shares. Tiaa Cref Invest Mngmt Limited Liability holds 0% or 92,874 shares in its portfolio. Ubs Asset Mgmt Americas has investedÃâà...
International Falls Journal
December 4, 2017
Virginia Isabelle Arnold, 82, of International Falls, Minn., passed away Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, at Rainy Lake Medical Center with her family by her side. She was born in International Falls on June 21, 1935, to Helen and Fred Koch and remained a lifelong resident of the area. She grew up near Second BridgeÃâà...
PR Watch
November 6, 2017
The Kochs may be following in the footsteps of their father Fred Koch. As New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer has detailed, Koch Sr. made the family fortune by working for Stalin helping to build 15 Soviet oil refineries. The experience made him virulently anti-communist and anti-“big government” in general,Ãâà...
CBS News
October 22, 2017
His father, Fred Koch, founded the Kansas-based oil and gas conglomerate, Koch Industries, now the second wealthiest privately-owned business in the country with annual revenues of over $100 billion. Bill Koch was fired from the company, after he tried to gain control of it. He sued his brothers CharlesÃâà...
NPR
January 19, 2016
Fred Koch, the patriarch of the family, was an expert in building oil refineries, and he and a friend named William Rhodes Davis proposed building one in Germany during 1934, '35, that period in there. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in Germany, so this meant working under theÃâà...
Gawker
January 18, 2016
Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer's expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo's father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out aÃâà...
PR Watch
January 13, 2016
Jane Mayer's new book, "Dark Money," breaks new ground on the Koch family at a time when its outsized influence on American democracy is under increased scrutiny. Mayer's book goes on sale next week, but reviewers have highlighted the new information Mayer researched about Fred Koch, the fatherÃâà...
New York Times
January 11, 2016
But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was aÃâà...
Al Jazeera America
July 30, 2014
More than 50 years ago Fred C. Koch, father of the controversial billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, warned in an alarmist pamphlet that he wrote ... The 39-page document, among a trove of FBI files on Fred Koch obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request, prompted theÃâà...
PR Watch
July 10, 2014
Some women and men spend their lives rebelling against their father or mother, but others follow in their footsteps or yearn for their approval. Some become friends. A few spend millions to make their parents' vision a reality. Charles and David Koch are among those few. Raw ideas that were once at theÃâà...
Progressive.org
July 8, 2014
Many commentators have noted that the father of the controversial Koch Brothers, Fred Koch, was a leader of the John Birch Society from its founding in 1958 until his death in 1967. But, in fact, Charles Koch followed his father's footsteps into the John Birch Society for years in Wichita, Kansas, a hub city forÃâà...
Think Progress
June 10, 2011
Fred Koch was no fly-by-night pamphleteer. He spent a generous portion of his later years using his wealth and influence to fight the communism he abhorred. He was an early member of the The John Birch Society's National Council, an advisory group to JBS founder Robert Welch. Koch supported aÃâà...
AlterNet
December 31, 1999
From their early involvement in The John Birch Society (daddy Fred Koch being an early member), they continued their rightward march, and by the 1970s, both had plunged into the abyss of a laissez-fairyland plutocracy. With the fervor of religious cultists, they've devoted themselves to the cause ofÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
December 31, 1999
Koch, Ronald Ray May 25, 1975 - Apr 11, 2018 Survived by wife, Cynthia; children, Norah and Matthew; father, Fred Koch; mother, Jo Cox; niece, Taylor; nephew, Chase and Logan; sister, Marnie (Chris) Phillips. VISITATION: Friday, April 13, 2018, 5-7pm at the Crosby Burkett Swanson Golden FuneralÃâà...
Montreal Gazette
December 31, 1999
In 1927 the Chicago stockyards were happy to strike a deal with University of Chicago chemistry professor Fred Koch to take bovine testicles off their hands. After all, “prairie oysters” had no great market value. Koch's intent was to study substances the testes released into the bloodstream that producedÃâà...
OilVoice
December 31, 1999
Founded in 1940 by Fred C. Koch, after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process, Koch Industries is the second-largest privately held company in the US. It employs more than 120,000 people in 60 countries and has revenues of $115 billion per year – that's more than that of Goldman Sachs,Ãâà...
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