Word: saud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arabia was at peace last week. Hard-hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...what was the scandal they were having up there . . . something about carpenters and plasterers, or was it about a memorial that the real argument had been? Anyway, it seemed that the workmen had walked out one morning. It was perfectly familiar down on Plympton street, too having heaps of saud, and workmen blocking traffic. Cagey system building the pagoda in between Russell and Westmorly, then tearing down Russell, cutting a big hole in the pagoda right off, so as to connect things...
...Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned by Ibn Saud and exiled...
Honored. Charles Richard Crane, 72, of Manhattan, onetime (1920-1921) U. S. Minister to China; named honorary adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government by H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labor. Last week Mr. Crane sailed to visit Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz and Nejd...
Died. Hussain, 76, onetime King of the Hejaz, father of King Faisal of Iraq and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan; on the Island of Cyprus. In 1917, aided by Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against Turkey, made himself King; in 1924 he was deposed by Iba Saud, driven into exile...