Word: fuad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been trying quietly to persuade the Egyptian government to accept a large number of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s dollars for a museum to house the relics that diggers of all nations are constantly extracting from the soil of the oldest nation. Mr. Rockefeller had written King Fuad a personal letter, and Professor Breasted was there to back...
Proud Egyptian nationalists had maintained a muttering opposition. Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor. Egyptian liberals, Egyptian scholars and King Fuad were of course quite overcome with astonished gratitude and eagerness, but they could not offend the mutterers, and an amazing bit of munificence hung fire because of a hitch at the receiving...
...King Fuad of Egypt was widely petitioned to quash the proceedings, and is now being pressed to overrule the verdict...
...Author. Ahmed Hassanein Bey, a very great gentleman in Egypt, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, won fame as a fencer in the University. He served in the Ministry of the Interior at Cairo, is now in the diplomatic service. King Fuad I is his friend...
...electors and candidates to fulfill certain educational and tax conditions. This is to reduce the large vote from the uneducated classes which, allegedly, never know about what they are voting. The drafting of this law will probably take all summer and is not likely to be decreed by King Fuad until September. Elections may then be held in October; and the Egyptian Parliament will probably not meet until next November...