Word: mahmoud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. His private army & political storm troops are the famed "Greenshirts." veterans of scores of street scuffles with the "Blueshirts," who are the private army of the Wafd. Outgoing Premier El Nahas not long ago ordered the Greenshirts dissolved, blaming them for an attack on his life; incoming Premier Mahmoud last week dissolved not only the El Nahas Blueshirts but all Egyptian "shirts"'-apparently thinking he and King Farouk could rely on the Army...
...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...
...Mahmoud is a son of Blenheim. Smirke is the jockey who, on Windsor Lad in 1934, equaled the record-2 min. 34 sec.- for the ½;-mile Derby course. Last week, after a delay at the post which alarmed radio announcers scheduled to follow the account of the race at 3 p. m. with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took...
...names they will then hear read off will be Mahmoud Fakry Pasha, Mohammed Tewfik Nessim Pasha and Adly Yeghen Pasha. The last is dead. One of King Fuad's last acts was to nominate as substitute his nephew, Prince Mohammed Ali, to head the Council of Regents...
...Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just getting...