Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muscat, important British port at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, His Highness Seyyid Sir Taimur ben Feisal celebrated the end of Ramadan by wiping his brow, praising Allah, announcing his decision to abdicate. The Sultan of Muscat differs from most rulers in his feelings for the land of his birth. He hates the place. Muscat is the world's hottest city, with an average annual rainfall of only 3½ inches, frequent temperatures of 189 degrees in the sun. The Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison...
Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...
...discreet battle against Persian backwardness shrewd Shah Reza, "The King of Kings," scored again last week against the country's Moslem hierarchy...
...Haim, Jewish member of the Persian Parliament and acting president of the Zionist Organization of Persia, was arrested for writing a letter to the League of Nations complaining of the treatment of Jews in Persia. Persia's Shah, Riza Pahlevi. who stands no nonsense, summoned Zionist leaders, ordered them to make a full retraction of their charges. Zionist Haim said that he would, on condition that persecution of Jews cease, that the Chief of Police be dismissed...
...came, theorize at length on their Eastern origin. Their English name is derived from the word "Egyptians" and some gypsies speak of themselves as "Pharaoh's People," claim to have originated in a non-existent "Little Egypt." Their language resembles a Hindu dialect with liberal borrowing from Greek, Persian, Armenian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech, German, French, English, et al. Gypsies have a great many kings and queens. In 1930 in Madison. N. J., Queen Louisa Harrison, recognized by one of the many U. S. factions, died. She was English-born, a devout Presbyterian and worth $1,000,000 which...