Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again in the Foreign News of Sept. 16 issue of your weekly trash on p. 25, under the news of "The League," I find an account of His Excellency Ali Khan Foroughi. Mr. Editor, I have the pleasure to notify your most mistaken honor (!) that Mr. Foroughi is not a prince; he is a world figure today, but he is not a prince. As a leader of the Persian nationalists, we glorify in him. much more so because, he has risen to an international figure, not with a royal ancestry but rather with ancestors who were commoners...
...Although I endeavored to correct the impression of foreign diplomats that the condition of Austria was very grave and bordering on revolution," said he in a startling official interview, "I must admit that I did not altogether succeed...
...Youngest and most delicate of George V's four sons is Prince George, 26, who has to be careful of his stomach. "Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...foreign heavyweights" grappled, tugged and heaved. Towering John Pesak had wrestled his way half round the world from Nebraska. Husky Joe Zikmund, billed as the "Polish Pachy-derm," tipped the beam at 218 pounds. Statesman Hughes slipped into his ringside seat just as Poland heaved Nebraska for a mighty thumping fall...
Tall, well set up, grave-faced and pleasant of voice, William Philip ("Phil") Simms, able Foreign Editor of the U.S. Scripps-Howard Newspapers, would make an impressive character witness. Last week he was back at his Washington desk from China. Eager to testify that in his opinion all is substantially well with Chinamen, he was soon tapping at his typewriter. Pungently he wrote...