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Mohammed VI, deposed Sultan, issued (from Cairo) a proclamation to the Moslem world calling upon it to ignore the decree of the Angora Assembly separating the office of Caliph (successor to the prophet) from that of Sultan (sovereign). He further declared himself still to be both Sultan and Caliph, and asserted that in fleeing from Constantinople he was following a precedent set by the Prophet, who fled from his enemies in Mecca to his friends in Medina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Turkey: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...city which kept the secret inviolate is not New York, nor Chicago, nor Boston, nor Detroit, nor Los Angeles, nor Atlanta, nor Washington, nor Rochester, nor Syracuse, nor Milwaukee, nor San Francisco, nor Seattle, nor Fort Worth, nor Baltimore. Where there is a Hearst paper, no scandal lacks either prophet or historian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shrewd Publishing | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...Palestine is our own country." " Down with Zionism! " " Long live Mustapha!" These were some of cries heard at Jerusalem during an Arab procession in celebration of " Nobi Moussa "-the Prophet Moses. Several people were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jerusalem | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...fifteen years, though the Alaskan experiment showed that the return is much larger and much quicker than any of its first investors dreamed of. Mr. Gilbert Grosvenor, of the National Geographic Magazine, should be referred to in this matter as an authority. He was ridiculed as a false prophet even for the modest support he gave the problem in 1902 in the National Geographic Magazine...

Author: By W. T. Grenfell m.d., | Title: REINDEER RAISING CAN BE PAYING PROPOSITION | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

...Professor Grandgent concluded, "From such study, derive the conception of a supreme artist, endowed with clearest vision, vivld appreciation of beauty wherever found, love of symmetry; a scholar of orderly mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge; a man of exceptional intensity of feeling; above all, a mighty champion and prophet of justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANTE IS SUPREME IMAGINATIVE POET | 3/1/1923 | See Source »

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