Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent representatives of Islam who assembled at Cairo (TIME, May 24) to select a new Calif, disbanded last week after irreconcilable rivalries had kept the Califate Congress in an uproar almost from its inception...
...Hills, Princeton 49 9 5-8 Other Winning Marks Over 46 Feet 1909--Little, Harvard 46 2 1910--Horner, Michigan 46 4 1-2 1913--Whitney, Dartmouth 47 2 5-8 1914--Beattie, Columbia 48 4 1915--Whitney, Dartmouth 47 4 7 8 1916--Liversedge, Calif. 46 2 1-2 1922--Hartranft, Stanford 48 6 1-8 1923--Hills, Princeton...
...Give two of the three traditional qualifications for the office of Calif...
...danger that a well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
...Moslems in the world, perhaps 50 millions mourned him as the "True Calif...