Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers suspected the Exalted Nizam of guile. According to the Koran, the Caliph of Islam must be a temporal ruler. Palestine Moslems have been trying for years, were still trying last week, to establish the present deposed Caliph in Jerusalem as "ruler" of a plot of ground about the size of the Papal State. In London this scheme is being urged by Shankat Ali, Moslem Delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference. But Christian Britain, who rules Jerusalem, hesitates to make the "Holy City" of Jews and Christians the seat of Islam's Caliphate. What...
Lamp Posts, Booze, Chisels. Like Prophet Mohammed's original Koran, Tycoon Ford's Moving Forward is best read in stimulating snatches. Its inconsistencies, some irreconcilable, are not the point. Snatches...
...awesome performance?last for ten years. "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford," reported the Associated Press, "did not conceal their deep emotion." But the Machine beckoned. Leaving the world's thriftiest? village behind, Mohammed went directly to Cologne. There, surrounded by German businessmen to whom his words are as the Koran, Mr. Ford peeled off his coat, vigorously laid the cornerstone of his first manufacturing factory on the European continent.? The historic moment was exactly high noon. Tapping thrice upon the stone, Henry Ford said...
...Ford Koran. The day after U. S. papers reported the cornerstone laying, shrewd Doubleday, Doran & Co. released Moving Forward, By Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther ($2.50). The earlier Ford-Crowther Book My Life and Work, translated into eleven languages, was a German best seller for two years. The new work is definitely more significant, not a biography but an attempt by Henry Ford to speak with the voice of New America, brushing aside many an "eternal standard," postulating new motives for U. S. tycoons, pointing new U. S. goals...