Word: murad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riviera, thoroughly deposed so far as Turkey was concerned, lived and still lives "His Imperial Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid II" and a ripe 17 was his beauteous daughter Princess Dur-e-Shawar in 1931. Beauteous too was his niece the Sultana Nilofar Hanim, great-granddaughter of Turkish Sultan Murad V. Best of all, the Caliph had no son and his hoary beard was that of a Patriarch unlikely to become again a father. At the death of this pope of Islam, therefore, pious believers would look upon the offspring of his daughter perhaps not as an orthodox and regular...
...each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number of children produced by harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death. To simplify matters and start with a clean slate, Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father's seven pregnant concubines...
Died. Thomas J Maloney, 73. onetime (1911-24) president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Golds, Helmar, Mogul. Murad); of pneumonia, complicated by heart disease and grief over his wife's death last fortnight; in Teaneck...
...letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...
...about $756,000 annually, without adjusting for sinking fund operations. Lorillard's balance sheet as of Dec. 31 showed an exceptionally strong position. Current assets equalled $73,000,000 of which $17,000,000 were in cash, current liabilities $1,474,000. Famed Lorillard products: cigarets-Old Gold, Murad, Egyptian Deities; cigars-Rocky Ford, Muriel; little cigars-Between the Acts, Royal Bengal...