Word: murad
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...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...
...much is the beauteous daughter of a deposed Caliph worth? How much for his cousin who is also the great granddaughter of the late Turkish ex-Sultan Murad V? Right up to the moment when the double marriage contract was signed in Caliph Abdul Medjid's villa last week, furiously polite Oriental haggling continued over the terms...