Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever gems "Tony" cut last week, he has 61 chances this week to cut more, as the 61 foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. James's call to pay their respects. The Iranian envoy was all primed to hear clever, young Mr. Eden speak Iranian (Farssi), a tongue with which the new Foreign Secretary sometimes amuses pretty ladies at parties...
...court of the King of Kings, swart, dynamic Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, arrived last week news which seemed to good Iranians almost unbelievable. Some natives of America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat...
...post as Minister from Iran. The Star then struck off two copies of a special edition in which Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being...
...Officially this company changed its name to Anglo-Iranian Oil last June after Persia had changed its name to Iran in March...
...Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, the name of Persia was changed to the name by which that country's natives have always known it-Iran. Last week stockholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., controlled by the British Government, met and changed their company's name to Anglo-Iranian...