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Article: William J. Casey, RIP.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 5, 1987
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William J. Casey, RIP
WHEN NATIONAL REVIEW was still only an abstraction,the young entrepreneur went to the law offices of William J. Casey for help. Casey incorporated the idea ("National Weekly, Inc.' it was called, until, with the first issue ready to go to press, it transpired that there was a publication called National Liquor Weekly, which pre-empted the proposed title) and drafted the proposed subscription plan for stock and debentures. Bill Casey had become something of a conservative activist. He served on the board of directors of the Henry Regnery Company, one of only two publishing houses in the late Forties and early Fifties that would bring out a ...