Word: sassoons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...side of Shanghai's life breathed collapse. Automobiles, refrigerators, even baby carriages swamped the market as evacuees disposed of everything which could not be hastily packed up and carted off. The roulette tables at Joe Farren's, the Park Hotel's Sky Terrace. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon's Tower Night Club had none of their old sparkle. Gangsters who had plundered weapons from dead soldiers on nearby battlefields turned Shanghai into a Little Sicily. With rice and coal under Japanese control, the bodies of starved Chinese were picked up in the streets by hundreds...
...body of Shanghai was international, its backbone was British. The city's really big names-Sassoon, Macnaghten, Keswick-were British; so were its attitude toward natives, its philosophy of polite but huge profits, and, in the last three years, the main part of its resistance to Japanese imperialism...
Last week the richest man in Shanghai arrived in San Francisco. World-traveling Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon is the Naples-born great-grandson of a Bagdad Jew who moved to Bombay and got rich in the Chinese opium trade. Other famed Sassoons: the late Sir Philip of London, Britain's art-loving ex-Under Secretary of State for Air, and Siegfried of Wiltshire, foxhunting ex-poet. But Cousin Victor of Shanghai is the financial head of the family. Thirteen years ago, fleeing taxes, he transferred some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there...