Word: mohan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue his interrupted family vacation, his open-handed demonstration had been worth a hundred propaganda pronouncements on U.S. capitalism. "You don't have to be a millionaire to put up $5,000," said Graham, hoping to encourage other Americans into backing small Asian entrepreneurs. Said Indian Hotelman Mohan Oberoi: "Send us 5,000 more Bill Grahams...
...India, where Horatio Alger sagas are as rare as Hindu beefeaters, one of the rare exceptions is the career of Mohan Oberoi, India's Conrad Hilton and a onetime farm boy from the Punjab who started out in 1921 without a rupee to his name. He now owns a $20 million interest in Oberoi Hotels (India) Ltd., a string of 13 hotels, and a luscious beach guest house on the Bay of Bengal that has been host alike to nabobs, maharajas and Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week at 56, Hotelman Oberoi was constructing in New Delhi Asia...
Iron Tubs & Partnership. Thirty-five years ago Mohan Oberoi landed his first job as $5.50-a-week desk clerk in Simla's Cecil Hotel, part of the British-owned Associated Hotels Ltd. At the time, India's inns had no room service, no running water. Guests bathed in galvanized iron tubs and brought their own servants, who bedded down in the hotel halls. Oberoi learned fast; by 1927 he was chief clerk at Simla's Clarke's Hotel, and a few years later bought a one-third partnership for $2,000 down, $6,000 later...
...town of Jammu the electricity and water system was wrecked, and 700 houses collapsed. Nevertheless, Dwarka Nath, a young shopkeeper, set off gaily, with his cousin Madan Mohan, for a wedding date with the lovely Uma Vanti in a village 50 miles away. After they had traveled 45 miles the young men came to the turbulent river Devak Nullah and found that the bridge had been swept away. As there was no boat available they plunged into the water. Madan Mohan, a strong swimmer, made the other bank. Bridegroom Nath spluttered, choked and turned back. With only one hour left...
...father knew it was bad luck for the bride if a wedding is postponed. Thinking fast, he asked Madan Mohan if he would take his cousin's place. One glance at the fair Uma, and Madan grinned consent...