Word: craned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great U. S. friend of small and backward peoples is Charles Richard Crane. Quite a trifle of his money went to help Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk found the new state of Czechoslovakia...
...squalid little Near Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...
Once upon a time Sindbad the Sailor set out on his Arabian Nights adventures from Basra. With Mr. Crane in Basra were his son John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud...
Away onto the hot plain sped the Crane motor. Ten miles. At the village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...
Late that night the Crane car reached Basra again, bullet-riddled, bearing a dead man. Straight to the U. S. Consulate went the Friend of Small Peoples, and there he gravely told what had occurred...