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...Reza Shah Pahlevi has never been a bandit. . . . It is we and our national assembly that has given him the Crown...
...Reza Pahlevi has indeed had his present status as Shah of Persia constitution-alized by Parliament, but his seizure of power was essentially a coup d'etat, staged by an officer who had frequently foraged supplies for his itinerant Cossack troops in the manner of a bandit...
...Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother-in-law of the land, on her y8th birthday. Mrs. Goodhue was still...
...jaunty, clean-limbed incumbent of the $30,000,000 Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan. Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated...
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...