Word: mahmud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...