Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern oil (TIME, Nov. 15) which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
Thus far this season, the freshmen riflemen have beaten Indiana Tech and Michigan State, and have lost to MIT and Navy. They still face competition with Wisconsin, Army, the Merchant Marine Academy, and Oregon State...
...father wanted to apprentice him to a rice merchant, but Mao again rebelled. He went to study in Changsha, where he hoped to find answers to many questions...
...Green" Hungarians are subdivided into two main categories, "class aliens" and "class enemies." To belong to the first category, it is sufficient to have a parent or grandparent engaged in a "bourgeois" calling, e.g., merchant or doctor-in fact, any occupation at all except worker or peasant. Like the non-Aryans in Hitler's Germany, these people are regarded as opposed to the regime by birth, even though they may never have engaged in active opposition. "Class enemies," on the other hand, may come from a long line of workers or peasants. They include all the known antiCommunists, regardless...
...they were still short of details. Not even M. Besse's closest friends seemed to know where he had been born. He had gone to the Middle East as a young man, made most of his money in hides, skins, coffee and the operation of a fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti-Vichy, had donated ?10,000 to British war relief...