Word: persia
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...perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told, set the palaces afire and saw their grandeur crumble into a dirt heap. Persia also crumbled...
Credit for the extensive excavations of Persepolis goes to Director James Henry Breasted of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He found the money to finance learned Professor Herzfeld and detach him from the University of Berlin. Professor Herzfeld, 53, has dug into ancient Persia for 30 years. The Shah is a personal friend, recently visited him at Persepolis...
...Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took...
Meanwhile in London the British Government, majority stockholder of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., whose concession the Shah has canceled (TiME, Dec. 12), declared last week that Persia's note on this subject was "so offensive'' that it could not be published. The note charged, according to Persians in the know, that for more than 30 years Britons have exploited Persian Oil lands "in a manner grossly unfair to Persia." Though the original D'Arcy concession (now Anglo-Persian's) was signed in 1901, no oil royalties were paid to Persia until 1914 when only...
...bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form a $2,000,000 "Persian-American Corp." Britons heard that this "American consortium" would "buy Persian products for American consumption" and "undertake a general program of industrialization for Persia." In Manhattan a Morgan partner flatly said that he "knew of no basis" for such reports, but by that time the House of Commons was seething over a so-called British ultimatum to Persia...