Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora the authorities fumed, impotent...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, national hero and onetime supreme commander of the revolutionary armies which swept away the Sultanate, set foot in Constantinople last week, for the first time since the Turkish Capital was officially moved thence to Angora...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
...Young Turks are not at all sure that they will find a second High Commissioner Bristol in his successor, the first U. S. Ambassador to be sent to Angora-Joseph C. Grew (TIME, May 30). Ambassador Grew is no salty sailor-paladin, but a Department of State "career man," until now Under Secretary of State...