Word: emir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime reading in London...
...dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...
Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak...
...cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud...
...riflemen, deserting the Imam's army, broke into the bazaars of Hodeida and looted lustily. About 300 foreigners were in the city, mostly British Indians. Before the Saudite troops entered, the greater portion had fled to the nearby island of Kamaran. With the victorious troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward the thick, sloping walls...