Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand National Assembly at Angora (new Turkish Capital) rushed through a law whereby infants born in Turkey after Jan. 1, 1929 to foreign parents will be considered Turkish subjects. Probably never before has an Asiatic state dared to enact a law so distasteful to Occidental Motherhood...
...Good is creditable but it is not spectacular. He was born in Cedar Rapids 62 years ago. He served in Congress seven times (1909-21) and retired when he was chairman of the pivotal Committee on Appropriations. Since then he has practiced law in Chicago and raised potatoes and angora goats in North Dakota. He met the Beaver Man in 1921, when they worked on the Budget together. He managed the Coolidge campaign in the West in 1924. When Hoover asked him a year ago to Hooverize the U. S., Good consented with pleasure. Of what he has done since...
...King Amanullah an album studded with jewels. Peering within His Majesty beheld photographs of Angora as a muddy, nondescript village, which it was in 1920, when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs. But these showed only what King Amanullah could see about him: the New Angora, a city of four, six and eight-story buildings, still raw and unlovely, yet proving that at last an Asiatic people is making swift, dynamic progress...
Amid ensuing festivities at Angora, members of the Afghan suite divulged details of their Russian tour (TIME, May 14) which were suppressed at the time by the Soviet Censor...
Very different was the attitude of King Amanullah, in Angora last week, when President Mustafa Kemal Pasha cried, in the course of a ringing public address,: "Our nations are sisters! . . . Turkey stands ready to perform her duties toward Afghanistan...