Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...states carved out of Abdul's empire had taken over his jiftlik as part of the public domain. His heirs contended that this was illegal seizure of private property...
Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam...
Prince Mohamed Ibn-Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia performs his princely functions in a princely manner. With his brothers, he attended the San Francisco Conference in long white robes and created an impression of stateliness and dignity, called on the U.S. State Department, inspected U.S. factories and Niagara Falls, dined with countless Arab-American groups, bought new automobiles, radios, phonographs and typewriters, lived splendidly in an eighth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...dark-skinned Prince Abdul Illah, regent of friendly Iraq, he presented the medal of the Legion of Merit...