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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a wedding took place in Abdin Palace, Cairo, at which not a single woman, not even a bride, was present. The ceremony consisted of two signatures on a contract-that of the groom, 19-year-old Crown Prince Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran; and that of 19-year-old King Farouk of Egypt, acting on behalf of the bride, his 17-year-old sister, Fawziya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fevered Nuptials | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Married. Crown Prince Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 19, heir to the throne of Iran; and Princess Fawziya, 17-year-old sister of King Farouk of Egypt; in a ceremony that required her absence; in Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Egypt last week was busily preparing for the visit next month of the 18-year-old Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpur Mohammed Reza, son of strong-willed Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, whose marriage to hazel-eyed, black-haired, 17-year-old Princess Fawziya, eldest sister of boy-King Farouk will take place this spring. At last reports the wedding date had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Love Match | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Shah's Dream | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran's soldier-dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had already ordered his gold, silver & rosewood private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rails Against Opium | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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