Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote...
...played both sides. Many, while insisting they are nonCommunist, are privately proud of how well Red China stood off the white man's armies in Korea. Though appalled by reports of conditions in Red China, they can be heard to say, in the words of a leading Singapore merchant: "For once, Overseas Chinese feel we have a strong mother country to whom we can turn if everything else fails...
...half century the Bullard family has endowed several departments and institutions of the University, especially the Medical School. There is a Bullard Professorship of Neuropathology at the Medical School, which was established by Louisa Norton Bullard and her children in memory of her husband, William Story Bullard, a Boston merchant prominent in the East India trade...
...finding herself childless, a widow, and sole executor of a large estate, she began, in a "wary, hardbitten, and vigilant manner" to carry on the tradition of the merchant aristocracy to which she had always belonged...
Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England...