Word: moguls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Margaret ("Peggy") Guggenheim Ernst, 48, uninhibited daughter of the late copper mogul Benjamin Guggenheim, exhibitionist of nonrealistic art; by Maximilian Maria ("Max") Ernst, 55, prizewinning surrealist (Temptation of St. Anthony) ; after five years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Reno...
...situation looked promising to a minor-league mogul and ex-marine named Bill Veeck (rhymes with wreck). He rounded up nine moneymen, including Comedian Bob Hope. Last week they bought the Indians for about...
...benevolent neutrality" that would not hamper the British in fighting the Japanese. He boasted that if his followers joined Gandhi's pacifist program, the British would have 500 times more trouble "because we have 500 times more guts than the Hindus." He recalled past glories of the Mogul Emperor Baber ("The Tiger") and other Moslem warriors: "The Moslems have been slaves for only 200 years but the Hindus have been slaves for a thousand...
...princelings, its millennium of dependence on the rule of outsiders, could become a nation in the Western sense, the achievement would be one of the greatest triumphs of history. In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, a Moslem character, Dr. Aziz, recalled that the great Mogul Emperor Akbar had worked with tolerance and wisdom to unite India, had even attempted to devise a new unifying faith. But, says Dr. Aziz: "Nothing embraces the whole of India-nothing, nothing, and that was Akbar's mistake...
Unrest spread to Bombay, where students clashed with police. In Delhi, other students marched in protest before historic Mogul Red Fort, the ancient citadel where I.N.A. officers were standing trial for high treason against...