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...For example, “Lawrencina was the daughter of a Liverpool merchant, Lawrence Heyworth, whose own family had been weavers in Bacup in Lancashire” is written both on Wikipedia and in Reeves’s book....
...Courtney Weaver One example he gives is this 2002 summit between George W Bush and Putin, where Sergei says he spoke to Bush for too long. Sergei says the US embassy invited him to speak....
...The show takes visitors on a journey through Loewe’s work with Indian ribbon-makers, Ecuadorian tapestry artists and Chinese bamboo weavers....
...It could easily be squatted because the houses, many of which are elegant 18th-century residences once home to prosperous Huguenot weavers, were worthless. Not any more....
...His son, who didn’t go to school until he was eight, received his early education from a patriotic uncle, George Lauder, who told his young charge: “If Scotland were rolled out flat as England, Scotland...
...By choosing to intervene, Biden became the first president since George HW Bush to move to enforce a rail contract against the will of some union members — a particularly dramatic move for Biden given his...
...Courtney Weaver is the FT’s US business and politics correspondent Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Before the fall of Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the entrepreneur had emerged as the second-largest donor to Democrats after George Soros....
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Washington...
...about motives, and motives behind motives, and so on, isn’t good for confidence in government generally and in law enforcement specifically,” says Michael Mukasey, the former US attorney-general under George...
...Vanners Silk Weavers, a renowned British silk manufacturer that supplied material for Ralph Lauren and Brooks Brothers, filed for administration in 2020....
...So far in the 2022 cycle, his political giving trails only that of Democrat George Soros....
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...In the archive room is the mill’s first pattern book from 1773, filled with tiny scraps of the fabric that a jaunty fellow back in the reign of George III might have worn....
...“I don’t think this is some sort of Koch brothers, [George] Soros kind of thing,” the consultant said. But Thiel is nevertheless heavily involved in his own political operation....
...Another was the smuggling of two Huguenot weavers from France — reputedly in wine barrels — by the Earl of Pembroke in 1721 to teach their techniques to the locals of Wilton, in Wiltshire....
...Schanck’s offering was a monster-size table coated in a brilliant metallic finish; Kahn’s, a massive, irregular-shaped cabinet in grass and found glass, made with basket weavers in Swaziland....
...Rum with George Washington or Diet Coke with Donald Trump? I know which one gets my vote. @alicelascelles...
...Courtney Weaver, the FT’s US business & politics correspondent, is a former Moscow correspondent Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Judith Evans and George Hammond have written a great primer on the finances and organisation of the Duchy of Cornwall, offering interesting insight into our new monarch’s management style....
...Next to it is the Stephenson Pharmacy, founded in the late 19th century by the British chemist George Stephenson and sold to the Samman family in the early ’40s....
...But Anita McBride, chief of staff to the first lady during George W Bush’s administration, made a distinction between their approaches....
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