Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Ataturk. He did not have ten or 15 years more. Since his teens he had been drinking and whoring, searching, without finding, some personal peace. He tried marriage once in 1922 to Latife, the daughter of a Smyrna shipowner, but was soon divorced. In 1938, exhausted by periodic debauches and drinking bouts, undermined by diseases, he died. The timing was just right. Kemal Ataturk had held the Turks by the hand just long enough to help, not long enough to crush...
...Fine Line. In New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Robert Miles failed to persuade the city commission to change its zoning boundary splitting his property, still has his two bedrooms designated "residential," the rest of his apartment "commercial...
Grain & Tankers. The man who bought the bank at Monte Carlo started off as a D.P. from Smyrna after the Turks overran the city in 1922 and killed his father and other members of his family. Onassis had enough cash to buy passage for Argentina, where immigration restrictions were few. He worked for seven years as a tobacco importing agent, piled up about $180,000; in 1930, with his Greek citizenship restored, he became Greek consul general, at the age of 24, in Buenos Aires. Onassis supervised the comings & goings of Greek grain vessels, soon decided that his future...
...slogan "Fascists of the World Unite!" In 1949, he stumped Hanover as a Neo-Nazi, won a seat in the Bundestag in the first West German election. This entitled him to a listing in the German Who's Who, which accepted his assertion that he was born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1911 (Smyrna's public records were destroyed by fire...
...dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later: "It's a lucky thing the ship was late-too late for the fumigation. Otherwise the stowaway would have been dead...