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Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious...
...Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the test. Those who flunked out would be demoted or dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must learn the 26 letters of the Occidental alphabet before the fifth birthday of the Republic. Though examination statistics were not issued, it was reported that Prime Minister Ismet Pasha...
...common knowledge is the frequent and valiant toping of champagne and swizzling of spirits by the President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi or "Victorious One" (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). Therefore only the mildest ripple of surprise was occasioned when Kemal addressed a Turkish audience in Constantinople, last week, in part as follows...
Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
...Turkish super-submarines, recently completed by a Dutch shipyard, were welcomed into Turkish waters amid pomp. The Ghazi, the Victorious One, stood at a window of the Dolma-Baghtche Palace on the Bosphorus, and watched through field glasses while the Turkish flag was hoisted aboard the submarines...