Word: achmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...