Word: maher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, with Cairo literally aflame and his people running riot in the streets, Egypt's King appointed a new Premier to head his government. Last week, after the second shortest tenure (34 days) in the history of the office, the new Premier resigned. "Certain obstacles," departing Aly Maher Pasha explained to the King, "stood in the way of the completion of my mission...
...Farouk himself. Another was his bitter enemy, the corrupt Wafd Party, which still holds a comfortable majority in Egypt's Parliament. Farouk wanted first to clean up the mess of corruption in Egypt's politics, and then to come to sensible terms with the British over Suez. Maher preferred, instead, to string along with the potent Wafdists and their leader Serag el Din, a prime instigator of the nationalist riots, and with their help do what he could with the British...
Chill. Last week, on the very morning when Maher was to meet Britain's Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson to begin talks on settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, the Briton developed a sudden "chill" and sent his regrets to Maher by messenger. On medical grounds the chill was somewhat inexplicable, since Sir Ralph, hale & hearty, had been seen playing a rousing game of cricket only the day before. On diplomatic grounds it was easily explained: King Farouk himself had asked the Briton to call off the talks, since he was about to sack the Premier. Maher called a hasty...
...practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble wit, he shares none of the anti-Britishism which characterizes both Maher and the more fanatic Wafdists...
...editor, N.A.M. picked one of its own staffers, Edward Maher, 49, once editor of Liberty and founder of a short-lived Washington daily "trade paper of Government." In U.S.A.'s 128 pages, Editor Maher plans to run 15 articles a month, a lead editorial, and one condensed book. The first issue's articles range from inflation and Anglo-American relations to atomic energy and the Soviet mind, with such contributors as ex-Satevepost Editorial Writer Garet Garrett, Southern Democrat Senator Harry Byrd, General Electric's engineering boss, Harry A. Winne, Historian and Editorial Writer Gerald W. Johnson...