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...Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Ghaffar Khan Djalal by some uncouth "Marylanders" in an unheard of place called Elkton (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). When...
...Persia. I, Xerxes, the great king, the king of kings, the king of the lands of many tribes, the king on this wide, far-stretching earth, the son of Darius the king . . , a Persian son of a Persian, an Aryan of Aryan lineage...
...results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story...
...Officially this company changed its name to Anglo-Iranian Oil last June after Persia had changed its name to Iran in March...
...this line, Alden Krider & wife, professional puppeteers, "plan to teach the women to do this kind of work and to have each camp write its own plays and make ten puppets." Miss Helen Olson offers expert vocational guidance. Miss Davida Olinger, just back from three years' teaching in Persia, "will give lectures on her experiences and knowledge of the Oriental world...