Word: shah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such families as those of His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa-II-bin-Haroub-bin-Thuwaini, Sultan of Zanzibar; His Highness Maharadjad-hiradja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jan Bahadur of Nepal, Shah Bahadur Shamshere-Jung. Maharadja of Nepal; and His Highness Seyyid Timour-bin-Feysal, Sultan of Oman...
Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...find it once more my duty to correct your news and warn you about your editorial hot-airs. A year and a half ago you published some mistaken news or rather a rotten material about His Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia, the leader of our youth and a genius of his age. As a warning to you, I corrected your news and warned you to be careful with regard to the news concerning world figures, such as our most beloved leader...
...remote Teheran, capital of Reza Shah Pahlavi, swashbuckling "King of Kings," a hard-boiled Chicago Tribune correspondent sat down last week to cable news that a long disregarded Persian police order forbidding men and women to converse together on the street is at last being literally and rigidly enforced. Cabled...
Western business than trouble in Afghanistan. Interest in Afghanistan is largely speculative. Persia contains some of the largest, richest oil deposits in the Near East. Last week in the prayers of many a British and U. S. oil tycoon, the name of Shah Reza led all the rest...