Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying kites adorned with the blue and white stripes of the Greek flag. No doubt existed in the minds of the police that a crime had been committed; but they could not decide what crime. Soon telegrams flew between Constantinople and the new Turkish Capital, Angora...
Since the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, tireless Westernizer, scowled last week as he entered the new Hotel Erkraf at his grubby capital, Angora, and found the dance floor all but deserted, though the band was playing a fox trot according to his orders, and officers with their wives were numerous...
...Battle Creek, Mich., the large Angora tomcat of a Mrs. F. C. Philo eyed a man who entered the Philo home as a metre-reader, saw the man seize Mrs. Philo and bear her to the floor, leaped upon the intruder, bit, clawed, screeched, spat, drove him from the house...
...third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday Feature Service was broadcasting what purported to be a speech delivered by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha to his "War Council" at Angora. President Kemal Pasha was quoted as saying that he had received assurances from Persia, the Egyptian Nationalists, Syria, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, China and Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities...