Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the prices Freshmen wrote down as their maximums were almost all exceeded without any apparent hardships to those who fill the Houses. But, naturally, the policy of Armenian higgling has led to a vitiation of the advantages which pertained to the position of the authorities during the first surprise years. As soon as the bluffing was two-sided, the original bluffer lost his superiority Knowing what sonority will be attributed to their "maximum price," the students naturally ask for below that price...
...pepper pother. Reopening of the pepper market after three failures and a week's suspension by no means marked the end of the pepper pool's spicy history (TIME, Feb. 18). For by last week it was clear that Garabed Bishirgian, the shrewd little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders...
Fortnight ago Garabed Bishirgian went down to his model farm in Surrey, where he fancies prize pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...
...aise des Pétroles, in which the French Government has big holdings; and the U. S.'s Near East Development Corp., owned by New York's and New Jersey's Standard Companies and Gulf Refining Co. A final non-voting 5% went to a mysterious Armenian named C. S. Gulbenkian who was active in securing the Irak concession...
...Armenians were a harmless folk but they were an alien body within the Turkish body politic and when the years of starvation and oppression following 1870 failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate the Armenians completely from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain...