Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaperwomen this week. She also found time to reduce the staff of 33 White House servants by approximately one-third. (Servants' salaries are paid by the Government, but the President must feed them out of his own pocket.) This week she held her first state dinner-for Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq...
...injured. In Beirut French shops were burned. (British stores in the same blocks were spared). Strikes spread, markets closed. Nervously, the French explained that the Senegalese had arrived because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch our independence...
Royal Names, Royal Mutton. When all was prepared, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (pronounced ib'n sa-ood) embarked with his brother, the Emir Abdullah; two of his sons, the Emirs Mansour and Mohamed; his deputy foreign minister, the Sheikh Yussuf Yassin; his finance minister, the Sheikh Abdullah Es-Suleiman; his courtiers, guards, cooks and other retainers to the number of 48. On this, his first journey outside his own country, the exigencies of space on a destroyer cramped the King's style. Traveling in his own deserts, he would be more likely to have 2,000 retainers...
...Lion & the Scepter. Ibn Saud's paternal great-great-great-grandfather was a mighty Sheikh when George Washington was a planter's son in Virginia. But the Saud family, long powerful in a land where the family is the center of power, fell on evil days in Abdul Aziz' boyhood...
...anecdotes, My Unconsidered Judgment is principally composed of a series of biographical articles which appeared originally as LIFE closeups. Their subjects include Field Marshal Jan Smuts, a South African witch doctor named John Chavafoimbira, Anthony Eden, an Irish publican named Jack Nugent and Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...