Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter...
...like the great Persian monarch. He imposed his will on hitherto independent fierce tribes, hanging dozens of warring sheiks, making other suspected local chieftains his permanent "guests." On a group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests) he applied the whip in person. Strongwilled, previously healthy followers of the absent Sultan Ahmad Shah, whom Reza Khan later had deposed, developed mysterious maladies from which they never recovered. One chief of polio committed suicide, and a foreign minister underwent a fatal operation for a vague ailment. Summed up the Most Lofty of Living Men several years ago: "I am a soldier-a simple...
...decrees proroguing Parliament for a month were sent to be read in each house. The Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep the prorogation order from...
Thirteen years ago, when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King...
...religion -Baha'i. This loosely organized faith, to which some 5,000 U. S. believers adhere, has no priesthood, is not recognized by civil law as qualified to perform marriages. Nonetheless Mr. & Mrs. Obadie asked a friend to read them the Baha'i service. He was Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and a U. S. Baha'i leader. Two nights later they met for the ceremony with friends at the home of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, onetime (1907-09) Lieutenant Governor of New York, member of a famed old family...