Penny Pritzker, an Obama fundraiser and Hyatt director, is a leading candidate to become commerce secretary.

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Few people "are more trusted and personally close to Thomas, Nicholas and Penny Pritzker than Marshall, " he adds.

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President Obama presumably nominated Penny Pritzker to be Commerce Secretary for reasons other than her record-breaking fundraising as his 2008 campaign chair.

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And I want to thank Penny Pritzker, and I believe Anna Burger and perhaps some other folks around this table, for putting in enormous amounts of time on this initiative.

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Early last year, she beat out the Waldorf Astoria, Hilton, Pierre Omidyar and Penny Pritzker, among others, to win the right to redevelop the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.

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Is this something that Penny Pritzker put this together?

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Yes, a few journalists, including me, have shed some light on how they managed to build and pass along such Brobdingnagian wealth from one generation to the next and the next. (Currently, 10 members of the Pritzker clan, including Penny, are individually rich enough to be on the Forbes 400 list.) But the family has remained largely mute on the subject.

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If shareholders can't overrule Tom, Penny and Nick, there are eight other Pritzker cousins they can turn to for support, eager to take up a fight.

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