Word: osman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing...
Snarevoyance. In Penang, Malaya, Medium Cassim Bin Osman was asked to go into a trance and locate a missing corpse, did so, was convicted of murder...
Less than 30 years ago, Aden Abdullah Osman was a houseboy for a minor Italian official in Italian Somaliland, a barren land on Africa's bulging eastern coast. Last week Aden Abdullah, now prematurely grey, rode through the streets of Mogadishu, the capital, past cheering crowds and saluting soldiers, to become the chairman of Somaliland's first elected Parliament and the leader of a new nation...
Hitler Built More. Opposition leaders expected new repressive legislation, which would antagonize Istanbul's urban sophisticates but would insure Menderes' hold on the countryside. But though threatened, his opponents were not cowed. Snapped Osman Bolukbasi, leader of one opposition party, "Hitler built many times more dams, bridges and harbors than Mr. Menderes, and still Hitler fell...
Died. Sahebzadi Azam-Un-Nisa Begum Saheba, 65, first of the four wives (two still alive) of His Exalted Highness Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 72, often reputed to be the world's richest man (estimated assets: $1 to $2 billion), and mother of the Nizam's heir, Azam Jah, 48, Prince of Berar; in Hyderabad, India. In addition to his surviving wives, the Nizam has 42 women in his harem, 33 living children, 46 grandchildren...