Word: custodian
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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
Great Day. In Washington, the Alien Property Custodian announced that he would dispose of a patent for soap guaranteed to leave the bathtub ringless...
...Prince Morimasa Nashimoto, 71, Supreme War Councilor (since 1923), Field Marshal, and Lord Custodian of the Shinto Shrines. Standing in the bomb-charred ruins of his mansion, he told newsmen: "I had nothing whatsoever to do with the war. ... I didn't actively oppose it, but you can imagine how I felt. ... I was only an honorary chairman [of military societies]. . . . Let's see what else I have done." He paused, looked up solemnly, added: "Nothing...
...need to save survivors from the European holocaust, were demanding the immediate reopening of large-scale immigration into the Holy Land. Arabs, now united in a strong seven-land league, were protesting threateningly against any such concession. Both sides addressed their pleas and threats to Palestine's harassed custodian, Great Britain...
That night there were enough guests at Mayor Sermon's house for two poker games: Marshal Fred Canfil, an old crony who was courthouse custodian when Harry Truman was a county judge; Eddie Jacobson, Truman's ex-partner in haberdashery; roly-poly, bonhomous Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, who doesn't play poker but likes to be in on anything; a scattering of judges and newspapermen. Harry Truman played until 1:30, enjoyed himself hugely...