Word: riza
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...Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...
...Haim, Jewish member of the Persian Parliament and acting president of the Zionist Organization of Persia, was arrested for writing a letter to the League of Nations complaining of the treatment of Jews in Persia. Persia's Shah, Riza Pahlevi. who stands no nonsense, summoned Zionist leaders, ordered them to make a full retraction of their charges. Zionist Haim said that he would, on condition that persecution of Jews cease, that the Chief of Police be dismissed...
...with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil list equivalent to $600,000 a year...
...Effendi, Minister of Religious Affairs; Seyid Bey, Minister of Justice; General Kiazim Pasha, Minister of National Defence; General Ismet Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sefa Bey, Minister of Education; Hassan Fehmi Bey, Minister of Finance; Mahmud Essad Bey, Minister of National Economy; Feyzi Bey, Minister of Public Works; Dr. Riza Nur Bey, Minister of Health; Marshal Fevzi Pasha, Chief of the General Staff...