Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...designer. She did, in 1927. Two years later she moved down two flights. By 1932 her 400 employes were turning out between 7,000 and 8,000 garments a year and Mme Schiaparelli, with no previous experience and only five years' work, was the most discussed fashion-maker in Paris...
Wisconsin knows Walter Jodok Kohler as its onetime conservative Republican Governor who was a great and good friend of Herbert Clark Hoover. To the U. S. at large, however, he is THE Kohler of Kohler. maker of washstands, bathtubs, plumbing fixtures. He is also the maker of Kohler, the model industrial village which adjoins his large estate and his plant outside Sheboygan...
Overnight the Rothermere retreat from Mosley gave pause to the maker of Britain's snorting little Morris cars. Lord Nufneld, formerly Sir William Morris, reputedly a heavy contributor to Sir Oswald's Fascist war chest. In a letter to The Jewish Chronicle Lord Nufneld announced that he had just given ?250 ($1.250) to the British fund for refugees from Nazidom and roundly declared: "I never subscribed to the Fascist movement nor supported it in any way; neither have I the least antipathy toward the Jewish race. It occurs to me that the best means of evidencing the foregoing...
...sowed across South America, the Government of Brazil's broad-browed little Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas has proved the lustiest offspring. After four years as an unconstitutional Provisional President, Dr. Vargas last week further stabilized his rule with a new and liberal constitution. It took care of its maker by permitting Dr. Vargas to run for President, but thereafter, as in most South American countries, no President of Brazil may succeed himself...