Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, was ousted by the Persian Parliament (TIME, April 7), because he had "spent too much of his time debauching along the Riviera." Upon hearing the news, Ahmad wept great tears, "walked around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion...
...Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once...
...Ahmad was ousted because he spent much of his time debauching along the Riviera...
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...Young Ahmad Mirza, 26-year-old Shah of Persia, loved pleasure and gambled too much on the Riviera (TIME, March 10). His 36 ministers last week deposed him. His young brother, the Crown Prince, aged 25, fled the capital. His baby son, aged 2, was named Shah. Thereupon much monstrous agitation for the creation of a republic collapsed. The 36 ministers will enjoy the pleasures of regency for 19 years...