Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Report glances about the world, thus: "By general consent 1930 was a gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully...
Crisp, hard Sir Ronald Storrs, who was with Kitchener in Egypt and with Lawrence in Arabia, was not half quick enough last week for the Greeks of Cyprus, a Mediterranean Island which he rules as British Governor...
Died. Sir Hugh Bell, 87, English ironmaster, father of the late Gertrude Bell (explorer of Egypt and Arabia); in London; of a chill. Died. Otto Mears, 91. Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...
...unhealthy places. Effect of the Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon...
...short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned by Ibn Saud and exiled...