Word: irak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...
...Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients from the Kingdom of Irak...