Word: nessim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Tewfik ("success") Nessim Pasha, 64, three times Egypt's Prime Minister; of heart disease; in Cairo. Leader of Fuad's Cabinet for two short ministries in the 20s, again from 1934-36, taciturn Nessim Pasha was more successful as a business man than as a politician. After his last resignation his life was occupied by making & breaking engagements to marry 17-year-old Maria Huebner, a Viennese hotel keeper's daughter...
...first Parliament since November 1934 met on the Moslem Sunday (Friday) for the first time in history. After brief eulogies to the King, Premier Aly Maher Pasha opened the envelope. Everybody knew the three names it contained: Fuad's son-in-law Mahmond Fakry Pasha; onetime Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha; and the late Premier Adly Yeghen Pasha, all good safe Fuad stooges...
...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...
...oblique answer to such Egyptian talk, Great Britain last week invited some Egyptian princes and Premier Nessim Pasha aboard the British cruisers Berwick and Ajax to watch demonstrations of Might off the harbor of Alexandria by 60 British war boats, 60 British warplanes...
Next morning, on Egypt's ironic "Independence Day," young men of Cairo went howling through the streets: "Down with Britain! Down with Hoare! Down with Premier Nessim Pasha! We want the 1923 Constitution...