Word: irak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et ante). There today Fat Chaps is respected as Mr. Francis M. Rickett, velvet-capped Master of Foxhounds of the swank Craven Hunt in Berkshire. The local lords and squires who hunt with him know nothing about oil, and little about Mr. Rickett. In Irak sheiks know him as one of Britain's slickest oil promoters. While "Lawrence of Arabia" was worrying about the Arabs' rights, Mr. Rickett sewed up so much oil with large promises and small doles of hard cash that when the dust cleared London's fiscal tycoons were...
...motorcycle accident, caused when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas." In one year he tore up 15,000 rails, blew up 25 Turkish trains, 57 bridges...
Born. To Ghazi I and Alia, King & Queen of Irak: a son, their first; in Baghdad...
...smuggled the canvas out of Russia. Last week newshawks in Paris found Mantacheff, learned he had sold the painting a year ago for 90,000 francs to Calouste Sartis Gulbenkian, a naturalized Briton, born in Armenia, who made a fortune by wangling a 5% share in the Irak oil concessions (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). September Morn hangs in his home at No. 51 Avenue Sena. Said Mr. Gulbenkian's secretary: "Please be kind enough to tell the world that Mr. Gulbenkian has no intention of selling the painting and does not want to be bothered with prospective purchasers." Exulted...
Died. Sharifa Huzayma, 50, Queen Mother of Irak, cousin and widow of its late King Feisal. mother of its present King Ghazi I; in Bagdad...