Word: reza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swagger Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, "King of Kings," itched with impatience last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly...
...discreet battle against Persian backwardness shrewd Shah Reza, "The King of Kings," scored again last week against the country's Moslem hierarchy...
...long ago Reza Pahlevi, the King of Kings, the Shah of Shahs, self-made Monarch & Boss of Persia, looked upon neighboring Russia's Five Year plan and found much of it good. What most strongly impressed His Majesty was the titanic bargaining power in world markets of a nation which, like Soviet Russia, places its entire foreign trade in the hands of a State Monopoly...
Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
Only one monarch is buying jewels today: Persia's Reza Shah Pahlavi...