Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Ghazi I and Alia, King & Queen of Irak: a son, their first; in Baghdad...
...quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph over weaker minds. While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army and made it his own by insuring regular pay for the first time in living...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
...College at Columbia University, his eye falls fondly and proudly on a thickly dotted map showing the number of students from foreign lands who have studied under his guidance. Last week white-haired Dr. Monroe, who looks like the late Warren Gamaliel Harding in spectacles, was triply honored. From Baghdad came an invitation to be president of the Iraq Educational Survey. From Persia came a decoration-the Order of Science Achievement, 1st Class-for his services to international learning. And in Denver 4,000 delegates of the World Federation of Education Associations elected him their president. Dr. Monroe, 62, delayed...
...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, on Bombay and Madras...