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...wealthiest of Moslem leaders, Sir Firozkhan Noon, a Punjab landowner, did not hesitate to wave the Red flag; "If neither [the Hindus nor the British] give [Pakistan] to us . . . if our own course is to fight, and if in that fight we go down, the only course for Moslems is to look to Russia. ... I will be the first to lose every rupee I have in order that we may be free in this country." Five thousand Moslems cheered. Even the women in the purdah enclosure to the left of the platform could be heard-applauding behind their screen...
...World's Fair." One Nick Trerotola, a garage owner, decided, somberly: "It may change my whole career." A Republican politician named Harry J. Hunter looked at it from UNO's point of view. "They'll have to pay too much money . . . Westchester is the wealthiest county in the world. They're not being economic...
...Poland the face of UNRRA was Canada's Brigadier General Charles M. Drury, 33, who commanded the 4th Canadian Division. Drury, a scion of one of Canada's wealthiest families (armaments), had accepted his UNRRA command with a faint dislike of Poland and the Poles. Swiftly and publicly he changed his mind. More remarkable, perhaps, Drury had overcome Polish Government suspicions that UNRRA would be used as a political weapon...
Income: "Plenty." The Soviet Government, which considers music as serious a subject as farming or factory work, has made high-grade musical composition a paying proposition. Soviet composers today are counted not only among the most respected but among the wealthiest citizens of the Soviet Union. Prokofiev, like a cautious capitalist, says of his income: "It is plenty...
Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...