Word: hardoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...