Word: amins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of the lot, spade-bearded El Amin, had a passionate concern for antique clocks, and an urge to garb himself in bemedaled uniforms of the old Ottoman army. He made an impressive showpiece at royal functions, never bothered to learn French, and gazed tolerantly at the antics of a huge and predatory family...
...Office. During the early years of insurgent Tunisian nationalism, El Amin refused to put his royal seal on a few French decrees. The irritated French ringed his palace with soldiers to put him back in line. The Bey's gesture was enough to keep him on the throne for a while after Tunisia got its independence. But Tunisia's modern-minded new Premier, Habib Bourguiba, 54, was obviously not going to tolerate the antique dynasty for long. Gradually the Premier cut down on the royal prerogatives. Two weeks ago, Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast: "The hour...
With a down payment of 100,000 francs to buy himself a new uniform (weighing 60 Ibs. before being loaded with medals) and a promise of $2,500,000 a year in salary and allowances for himself and his family, aged El Amin played his part to perfection. He was regal and dignified at hand-kissing ceremonies, built fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important...
...Amin Bey was always May 15, the anniversary of his accession when, amidst the panoply of his royalty, his subjects, his ministers and the full diplomatic corps gathered to do him homage. When last year Tunisia became an independent nation under Premier Habib Bourguiba. the Bey's allowance was cut to a puny $500,000 and the special laws protecting his family were repealed (one cousin was promptly sent to jail for pushing narcotics). Last week a two-line communique from government headquarters announced that May 15 was no longer to be considered a public holiday. Reduced to accepting...
...perquisites that go with it-though the perks can be quite handsome. In 1943-when Mohammed al-Moncef showed troublesome signs of getting out of hand, the French dumped him on the ground of his being pro-German, and installed an obscure and more tractable cousin, Mohammed el Amin...