Word: emir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko, 75, wealthy Emir of Nigerian Katsina (pop. 1,000,000). Most forward-looking of all Emirs, plane-traveling Dikko had four wives, 500 descendants...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...
From an Arab leader, 2,500 miles across the desert from Casablanca where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were discussing policy, came a call last week for the extension of the Atlantic Charter* to the Arab world. Said the Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan...
...Emir of Trans-Jordania issued a public statement: "The Senusi (secret Moslem sect) are the rightful overlords of Libya by virtue of ancestral ties and religious leadership. We Arabs never forget the national war of the Senusi against Italy...
...clock in the morning, the 800,000 printed covers were just so much waste paper. The Emir plates had been torn off the press. The Stalin-Timoshenko cover plates had been bolted on in their place, a special extra crew of press men had been routed out of bed to come down and rush the makeready, and a complete foundry force had been summoned by telephone to make 210 additional press plates on Sunday double time to make it possible to print the Timoshenko cover 16 up-65,000 an hour...