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Striding forward, Commissioner Foote threatened to wipe out the entire settlement unless the Arab villagers produced and delivered to the British the aged Sheik Farhan al Sadi. After this 75-year-old Arab dignitary had been told of the British ultimatum, he crawled out of a wheat bin, gave himself...
...Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...
...have died in office: Sadi Carnot and Félix Faure. Six have resigned: Adolphe Thiers (1st President), Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand under political pressure; Jules Grevy because of scandalous traffic by his son-in-law in Legion of Honor decorations; Jean Casimir-Perier because he was "irked by the restrictions upon the President"; and Paul Deschanel when his health broke down...
...Aviator Sadi Lecointe, famed speed pilot, volunteered for service in Morocco...
Among the most noteworthy people who lost their seats: Deputy André Tardieu, ex-Minister of Finance de Lasteyrie, ex-Minister of the Interior Manoury, León Daudet (Royalist leader), General de Castelnau, "Saviour of Nancy," Prince Murat, Sadi Lecointe (aeronaut...