Robert Maxwell
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"Ian Robert Maxwell", Military Cross/MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and Parliament of the United Kingdom/Member of Parliament (MP). He rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. His death revealed huge discrepancies in his companies' finances, including the Mirror Group pension fund, which Maxwell had fraudulently misappropriated.

He escaped from Nazi occupation, joining the Czechoslovak Army in exile in World War II and then fighting in the British Army where he was decorated. After the war he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major publishing house. After six years as an MP during the 1960s, he again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan, Inc, among other publishing companies.

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He threw away two trash bags (of clothes), and we're here to refill. It's all right, because he's got to have clothes, and he keeps getting bigger.

Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

We're talking about 10 years from now and longer, not the current mission.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

But as soon as we marched off a German tank opened fire on us. Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

If they donate the materials, we'll build them in their parking lots.