Word: shah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsided to an occasional murmur. It began vigorously in 1878, with the founding of the Anti-Tobacco Society in New York; it sank this year as Kansas, last state with an antitobacco law, repealed its pertinent legislation. The sequence recalls 17th Century Persian history; Shah Abbas made his tobacco-using courtiers smoke camel's dung for punishment; his grandson Shah Sen poured hot, melted lead down the throats of tobacco merchants; another Shah, Abbas II, found smoking pleasant and canceled old Persian laws...
...realize the Doctor's power, glance at one of the petitions in a Persian newspaper which typically begin: "Oh, Allah! Oh, Shah! Oh, Dr. Millspaugh! Heed our Prayer...
...past five years every toman ($1) spent by the Government of Persia has required the authorization of Dr. Millspaugh, who must even dole out to "The King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlavi, that monarch's monthly allowance for his army and himself, 750,000 tomans...
...steady plugging and with the co-operation of the Shah (whose revenue has been larger under Dr. Millspaugh than ever before) sufficient progress has been made so that the present budget shows a surplus. Time and again the Majlis (Parliament) has been ready to oust the U. S. Administrator-General of Finance; but many flukes have saved him. For example his dismissal was thought certain in 1924, just before the murder (TIME, July 28, 1924) of the U. S. Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame...
...Four thousand pounds," said a quiet, mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...