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...arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted during the Institute's excavations...
Thirteen years ago, when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King...
...Reflecting company estimates of a potential reserve of at least 100,000,-ooo bbl. in its new field, Barnsdall stock in six weeks was moved up from $20 to $34 per share. C In ancient Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia), word leaked out that Seaboard Oil Co. had acquired exploration and exploitation rights to 180,000 sq. mi. of Iranian territory...
...history for resist ance to imperial exploitation or more recently high-powered corporate enterprise had accepted an arrangement which in other countries of the Near East has gen erally meant both. 2) Beneficiary of the deal was neither Britain, whose Near East oil holdings are richest in Iraq and Persia, nor Russia, which has shared Britain's interest in Afghanistan as a buffer state northwest of India, but a first-string...
...only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand ard Oil of California in 1931 on Bahrein Island...