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...Mandate in 1922. Thereafter bloody work began for the French Foreign Legion. Years of pumping machine gun bullets into Syria's more savage tribes finally brought peace in 1927. Under French dominance, the so- called "Syrian Republic" was proclaimed and provided with a Constitution and a Sheik Premier. It was he, the potent Sheik Taj-ed-Din Effendi, who made Syria news last week...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with...
Taking no chances, Syria's Sheik Premier issued a drastic decree banning Yo-Yoing throughout the young Republic, threatened heavy penalties. According to despatches from Damascus, "it rained the very next...
...Philadelphia, Negro Thomas Tolbert, io, was haled into Juvenile Court as a truant. His mother said she had told him to stay home until the teacher learned to call him Thomas Tolbert-El. his name as a member of the Moorish-American Mohammedan cult. Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey came from Chicago to back her up, describe his organization which turns Negroes into Moors (turbans $3.50. polygamy permitted). Judge Charles L. Brown had Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey hospitalized for examination, ordered Thomas Tolbert-El back to school...
...question: "And do you like our place here in Wadi Safra?" Said Lawrence: "Well; but it is far from Damascus." The story of the Arab revolt and Lawrence's part in it is now history. He and Feisal took to each other immediately; so did he and Auda, sheik of the Abu Tayi Howeitat, most famed fighter in Arabia, who had killed 75 men in battle, "not counting Turks." First merely a liaison officer, Lawrence's powers increased with his achievements until at the end of the War he was practically directing the Arab irregulars who helped General Allenby roll...