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Chaldean Francis Thomay was born in Constantinople, educated by Lazarists and Jesuits. From his youth he saw many another Christian butchered by the Turks. Ordained and stationed in Mosul during the War, Father Thomay was put in charge of 200,000 Christians deported by the Turks from Armenia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia because he was the only priest in Mosul who could speak Turkish. By the end of the War, privation had reduced his charges to 10,000. As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost...
...facts was the Communist Daily Worker. Since picture editors of other London dailies could not spread before their loyal public the panoply of marching kings without also showing Masseur Stoebs, they got over the difficulty with captions identifying him variously as "a representative of Transylvania" and "a representative of Armenia." Unwilling to take refuge in such a downright lie, one editor merely captioned: "Picturesque uniforms worn by some of the suites of the foreign royalties...
...seen September Morn in Mantacheff's Paris home, that Mantacheff related how he smuggled the canvas out of Russia. Last week newshawks in Paris found Mantacheff, learned he had sold the painting a year ago for 90,000 francs to Calouste Sartis Gulbenkian, a naturalized Briton, born in Armenia, who made a fortune by wangling a 5% share in the Irak oil concessions (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). September Morn hangs in his home at No. 51 Avenue Sena. Said Mr. Gulbenkian's secretary: "Please be kind enough to tell the world that Mr. Gulbenkian has no intention...
...London it is possible to speculate in dried flies. And on at least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...
...very long lower teeth. I felt great love for him, even though he was ugly with the vilest ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write...