Word: suleiman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor, and King Paul and Queen Frederika landed to take formal possession of the islands. In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians. This week, by the terms, of the Paris peace treaty with Italy, they became again what they had always remained...
Iran's oil was part of the greatest known oil reservoir on earth. Only in the south had part of its riches yet been tapped, by the British, but the results were impressive enough. From the oil area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
...Names, Royal Mutton. When all was prepared, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (pronounced ib'n sa-ood) embarked with his brother, the Emir Abdullah; two of his sons, the Emirs Mansour and Mohamed; his deputy foreign minister, the Sheikh Yussuf Yassin; his finance minister, the Sheikh Abdullah Es-Suleiman; his courtiers, guards, cooks and other retainers to the number of 48. On this, his first journey outside his own country, the exigencies of space on a destroyer cramped the King's style. Traveling in his own deserts, he would be more likely to have 2,000 retainers...
Oriental harems and Freudian philosophy both find their place among the fall book releases of the Harvard University Press. "Suleiman the Magnificent," by Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and "Freud Master and Friend," by Hanns Sachs, instructor in Psychology, are among the publications...
...Today all that is changed. Suleiman is trying to get out from under the heavy-hanging title of 'god,' has dropped the plural speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...