Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO-Rachel Field-Macmillan...
When her subject is right, as it was in Time Out of Mind and Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field can do it up brown. Her robust whimsicality, freshness and charm rank her, without disparagement, as the Louisa May Alcott of contemporary writers. All this, and Heaven too, the "true" story of her great-aunt, Henriette Desportes Field, is a Rachel Field natural...
...Mussolini, who has the often Jewish name of Rachel, is not a Jewess, but even if she were the fact that Mr. Mussolini fought in the World War would thus entitle her and his children to exemption under the new decree. Similarly, since the Fascist Party was founded as an organization of World War veterans, nearly every Jewish "old comrade" of the Dictator is now exempt from antiSemitism, as are several high Jewish officers in the Italian fighting forces, together with every Italian Jew who was sufficiently pro-Fascist to join the Party as late as two years after...
Females: Abigail, Bela, Chinke, Driesel, Fradchen, Frommet, Gole, Hadassah, Hannacha, Hitzel, Jezebel, Judith, Libe, Mathel, Pesschen, Pessel, Pirle, Rachel, Rebekka, Rivka, Sara, Schlämche, Tana, Zipora...
...Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan to work again for American Tobacco, later for Tobacco Products Corp., one of whose possessions was Melachrino. There he met Rube and Mac. In 1920 with his bride, a Boston girl named Rachel Riley, lanky Mr. Chalkley shipped for China to be second in command of a Tobacco Products Export Corp. factory in Shanghai. Twice during that period Rube Ellis journeyed to Shanghai and the two men became firm friends. In 1924 Rube took Chalkley back to Manhattan to be treasurer of Philip Morris...