Word: aga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, the Aga Khan III, offered �100,000 last week to Sir John Rutherford for his colt Solario ?was refused...
...everyone knows, the Aga Khan III claims descent from Mohammed and the earliest Persian monarchs. As such, he and his late father and grandfather have rendered invaluable service to Britain by loyally championing the British raj in India and British interests generally throughout Mohammedan countries...
...Aga Khans have been generously rewarded by Britannia?no niggard when she obtains good value for her money. The present Aga Khan III was accorded a salute of eleven guns, in recognition of his invaluable World War services, by Britain...
...travels almost incessantly; resides fitfully at Aga Hall, Bombay; possesses no kingdom or sultanate save in the hearts of Moslems; is perhaps Islam's most potent spiritual lord...
...danger that a 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...