Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto...
Worried Jugoslav elder statesmen reflected that if the Serbs become vexed at having to learn a new alphabet and turn from youthful King Alexander, a revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...
Angora is the capital of the Turkish Republic. Angora in August is dry and blindingly, witheringly hot. To convince effete young Turks that Angora in August is still humanly habitable. President Mustafa Kemal Pasha announced, last week, that he would cancel his usual trip to cool Constantinople, stay in Angora through the summer. Constantinopolitans were relieved. Last year Constantinople spent some $100,000 stringing lights, building triumphal arches to honor the Ghazi on his Bosporus vacation...
Buffalo, New York, helped Angora, Turkey, last week in spreading the new gospel of a 31-letter Latinized alphabet which dynamic President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has made obligatory throughout the Turkish Republic (TIME, Sept. 17). The trouble has been to keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously...
...demagog he often is, Mr. Henderson performed an international public service last week when he dismissed Baron Lloyd. It was he who last summer forced Egypt to accept the Cabinet of Mamud Pasha, who commanded only 28 seats in the Egyptian Chamber, whereas the "Opposition" led by Mustafa Nahas Pasha is a solid phalanx of 170 Deputies (TIME, July 30, 1928). A far less outrageous deed would be?...