Word: bhopal
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...eager were the British to carry back the Cup this year, after five unsuccessful attempts, that they scoured the Empire for the best ponies they could get (the Nawab of Bhopal and the Maharaja of Kashmir, two of the richest men in India, donated eleven), shipped them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
James Simpson, a Scotsman from Glasgow, was shooting tigers near Bhopal, India, in 1932 when a cable from Chicago caught up with him. Big businessmen and bedraggled bankers begged him to hurry home and assume three basic posts in the ravaged Insull empire. Back to a dreary city in 14 days came James Simpson from India. He resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke...
Accompanied by her third son and by numerous retainers, the Begum of Bhopal,f sole feminine ruler of an Indian state, interviewed British statesmen on the question of her successor...
...Highness, the Begum of Bhopal, exercising power of life and death over her subjects, has adopted prohibition in her state. It matters not what think her subjects, they must give up their alcohol...