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...Iran's tall, autocratic King of Kings Reza Shah Pahlavi, 58, gets older, his temper gets shorter. Less & less can he bring himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed...
...Reza Shah Pahlavi was born a peasant, began his career as a Cossack trooper...
...Town Council, under pressure from the U. S. State Department, fired the policeman who perpetrated this outrage. Constable Clayton L. Ellison. Last week Iran was incensed to learn that Elkton had stealthily rehired Constable Ellison. At once the powerful influence of the Kingdom of His Majesty Shah Reza, King of Kings and the Elect of God, again operated, and Elkton's Town Council again fired Constable Ellison...
...court of the King of Kings, swart, dynamic Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, arrived last week news which seemed to good Iranians almost unbelievable. Some natives of America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat...
Last March, by decree of His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, the name of Persia was changed to the name by which that country's natives have always known it-Iran. Last week stockholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., controlled by the British Government, met and changed their company's name to Anglo-Iranian...