Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toronto burlesque house in the early days, they designed a hilarious puppet stripper, who took off everything, including her head. The audience merely clucked in sympathy, thinking the doll was broken. "They just didn't dig us," says Bil, "until we hit the Persian Room...
...Persian Gulf pumps its steady stream of dollars, and new trade agreements, like the one with Italy which guarantees Iran the lion's share of a 25-75% split, will certainly affect the 50-50% deals that have been standard with British and most U.S. companies. Under Iran's $1.1 billion development program, made possible by oil revenues, regional schemes will supply irrigation, fertilizer, electric power and light industry. The ambitious Khuzistan project in southwestern Iran is under the able guidance of a U.S. firm headed by David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who pioneered...
...handed the Iranian ambassador a stiff note warning of the danger of Iran's being involved in the "military adventures" of foreign circles." Voroshilov's visit was abruptly canceled; Ambassador Pegov stopped flashing his gold-toothed smile and packed for the trip home. The Soviet radio, in Persian language broadcasts, cried that "American warmongers will be masters of the country," and painted a gruesome picture of Iranians living in mud huts, forced to eat grass, date seeds and locusts because "everyone knows that the policy of militarizing the country is one of the main reasons for difficult living...
...Cronin graduated from B.C., the U.S.S.R. was claiming that "Ali Baba and his forty thieves were still at work in the Mid-East," and that about half of its Lend-Lease allotments were being carried off by stealthy Arabs. Cronin went to work for the Documentation Branch of the Persian Gulf Command in Teheran, where he dealt extensively with the Russians. He had been educated at Catholic schools, and found that the Russian's actions "were the antithesis of everything I had ever been taught." At a time when most of the people with whom he worked thought that Russians...
Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, Turkish statesman, and Muhammed Nizamuddin, professor of Persian at the University of Osmania in India, are already in Cambridge. They will be joined late this month by Shujiro Shimada, Curator in the Department of Art at Kyoto National Museum...