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...overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, disappointed at not being made chairman of the Committee on Immigration, Mr. Norris led a group of about twenty-five insurgent Republicans, who, with the Democrats, constituted a major- ity in the House. . . ." ED. Achmet's Women Sirs: In my Jan. n copy of TIME I read your account of Achmet Zogu's efforts to marry into European nobility, and thought that perhaps you would be interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation...
...marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet was only a Deputy, representing the Mati tribe, of which he is hereditary Chieftain, he signed a marriage contract with Shefqut and became the legal husband of Fatima. It was an excellent marriage for him, then. Shefqut was rich and powerful and owned most of Southern Albania. Events immediately subsequent...
...pretty ingenuity as if he were not lying at the point of death, Sophocles answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage, by his wisdom, I, all my life a scholar, am nearing my hundredth year...
...Califate: King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak, President Mustafa Kemal of Turkey, Shah Reza of Persia, the Aga Kahn of Bombay, the Sultan of Morocco, King Abdulla of Transjordania, Imam Yahya of Yemen, the Idrisi of Asir, Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz, Sheik Achmet of the Senussites and Abd-El-Krim. ... 5) The Califate Congress which met last week has already been repudiated by Sultan Ibn Saud, who has summoned a rival Califate Congress to meet at Mecca, next month - presumably on the theory that he seized the Califate from the Kings of the Hejaz...
...well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...