Word: industrialist
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...Hour. In the dawn's early light, Bombay's police commissioner arrested Gandhi at the home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy...
...Dearborn last week visiting his good friend Henry Ford, Alabama's famed Negro Scientist George Washington Carver inaugurated a new food laboratory, chatted about the possibility of Michigan-raised rubber, gladly munched (with Industrialist Ford) a sandwich made of weeds, which he had prepared...
...Lafayette College nickname "Bill" he still goes by) turned 65 the day before his election, and he owes his election to the votes of the Conservative majority. He has been at East Liberty since 1921, saw it become "the most beautiful Presbyterian Church in the world" when Banker-Industrialist Richard B. Mellon (Andrew's brother) gave $4,500,000 for its soaring Gothic buildings. His congregation of 2,500 gives $160,000 a year for church causes, personally supports 14 foreign missionaries...
...kitchen of a Brazilian industrialist that the strangest agent of them all was bagged. Brushing back the coarse black hair of the family cook, Brazilian cops were confronted by a captain of the Japanese Army. For five years he had been posing as a woman, and was rated a fine hand with a saucepan...
...lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair...