Word: kadir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...
...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
...your description of the supposed death of Prince Abdul Kadir, Page 13, under "Turkey," you aver that "too much water in the lungs was the cause of his demise...
While bathing in the Danube, profligate Prince Abdul Kadir, a son of the late ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid, expired. Too much water in the lungs was the cause of his death...
...Abdul Kadir, was also brilliant, and his radiance attracted more ladies than even a self-respecting Turk allowed in his harem. After his father was banished to a luxurious prison in what is now Greece, Abdul Kadir migrated to Budapest where women, wine and Tsigane music swelled his collection of unpaid bills. He married the Hungarian equivalent of a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, but eventually abandoned her and the small, red heir to which she had just given birth. A few days later the Prince walked into a Budapest court in answer to a summons. The police were amazed. Further investigations...