Word: egypte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refer TIME (Sept. 2, 1929) quote "From what I know I would say that his [Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt] main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horse breeding establishments in the world where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood etc." "TIME will tell...
Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
...Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King Fuad of Egypt...
...pink milk was a thoughtful gift from still another monarch, round King Fuad of Egypt. Ever since his illness, George of Britain has been peckish at his food. In recent weeks royal doctors have asked for special recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink "preserved milk," specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain's royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink...
...Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt." As a "borrowing man" he enjoys the thoroughgoing contempt of Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, always a "bear" on German futures, who constantly grumbles that the Fatherland has already borrowed far too much...