Word: shahinshah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jaunty, clean-limbed incumbent of the $30,000,000 Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan. Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated...
...encrusted 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...
...month. It is regarded as certain that Reza Kahn will then be elected to head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...