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...Denial: "There appeared recently in the Press an article in which it was stated that His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia left Teheran at the head of an expedition to Louristan, and that His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince was appointed as Regent during the absence of the Shah from Teheran...
Ripping out a brace of terse orders, the King of Kings dynamically prepared to lead an army into Luristan. But someone must reign at home, in Teheran, during his absence. A happy thought! His Majesty would make the 10-year-old Valiahd temporarily Regent of Persia. The lad should do something to earn his $2,000,000 a year...
Swiftly the substance of these ideas was carried out. His Majesty went before the Majlis (Parliament) and presented to that assembly as Regent the boy, Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. The lad, trained to drill and play war games from infancy, made a trim, soldierly appearance. The Majlis cheered him and he held his head high. But afterwards his nether lip trembled as his father bade him goodbye and set forth, jauntily, to lead an army into Luristan...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences; H. J. Hughes '03, professor and dean of the Engineering School; E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History and Literature; G. H. Chase '96, professor and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Creator of Classical Antiquities; Matthew Luce '91, regent; A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller; Mitchell Gratwick '22, assistant dean of Harvard College; and Mr. George Wigglesworth '74, a former president of the Union...
Last week Hungarians honored their new Duke Primate as perhaps subordinate in rank only to Regent Nicholas Horthy of the kingless kingdom of Hungary. The newly exalted Primate is humble of origin, has two brothers who are still village potters, as was his father...