Word: ali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cairo the young King knelt before the tomb of his father in the Mosque of Er-Rifái, met Queen Mother Nazli and his four sisters at Abdin Palace. His work was ended when he recognized as his heir his first cousin, 61-year-old Prince Mohammed Ali, son of his father's eldest brother and his father's nominee for president of the Council of Regents to replace a nominee who had died...
...Wafd Parliament had the right to reject these names and it unanimously did so. It thereupon chose Prince Mohammed Ali for president of the Regency Council, as Fuad had planned, and two other men who would probably have been acceptable to the late King. They were his brother-in-law, Cherif Sabry Pasha, 41, athletic Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, and onetime Foreign Minister and Minister to Great Britain General Aziz Izzet Pasha. Not by accident was the Council loaded with foreign affairs experts, for Egypt's most important pending business is the negotiation of a new treaty with Britain...
Last week Egypt passed into the Wafd's power when Premier Aly Maher Pasha presented Prince Mohammed Ali with the resignations of his no-party Cabinet and the Premiership went to the Wafd leader, burly, big-voiced Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...
...Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported...
...down. When, after 53 minutes of mauling, Shikat began to lose enthusiasm and the shoe polish from Baba's mustache dripped onto his hairy chest, the latter pinned Shikat with what Announcer Joe Humphreys identified as a flying crotch hold and body press. With this hold, Ali Baba became the fifth person in the U. S. currently claiming the World's Wrestling Championship...