Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Imbrie, described as " delegate of the American High Commission to Angora," lives with his wife in a railway passenger car, which he has converted into a " model apartment...
...Swiss syndicate proposed to Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne, that Turkey should grant an annual concession for the supply of 1,000,000 thoroughbred Angora cats at $1 each. The syndicate reckons that it can sell these cats at $50 apiece-a fact which, be it said, has fairly staggered the Turks, who have never regarded felines as a source of tremendous wealth. Shukri Bey, prominent in the Turkish delegation, said: "It is true that there are more cats in Angora than there are stones on the street. The same is true throughout Anatolia...
...proposed Swiss corner in Angora cats, which may violate the Chester concession...
Mosque and State. The Angora Assembly has decreed the separation of mosque and state, and so the Caliph, successor to Mohammed and Haroun al Raschid, will no longer have any temporal power, such as his predecessors had. It was feared that the Moslems in India would object to this sudden move, but a congress of Moslem religious teachers in Calcutta has wired approval to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, calling him the " Renovator of the Caliphate," and accepting the new status of the Caliph. The present Caliph's " holy beard" has just reached the length required for sultans, and was blessed...
...declared Dr. Fuad Bey, a member of the Angora Assembly and the first Turkish official to visit the United States since the war, who has come to this country to make a study of social and philanthropic institutions as well as educational and business methods. Speaking through an interpreter in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Dr. Fuad who was formerly Turkish Minister of Health and Child Welfare, described the work being conducted by the Nationalist government along hygienic and educational lines. When asked to comment on affairs in Smyrna, Dr. Fuad said he had nothing...