Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia, conducted him over every ship, gave...
Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...Italians on their recent drive, had been abandoned by Italian colonial troops, but not yet reoccupied by nervous Ethiopians. Italian headquarters still insisted that they were using Gorrahei's airport, a field some distance from the town. ¶ Mystery man of the week was H. H. Mohammed Yayou, Sultan of Aussa, a plains district between the Danakil Desert and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway. Certain it was that he was fighting. There was some confusion about which side he was fighting for. Weeks ago he was supposed to have been bought by Italian gold. Few days later...
...must not rise against the French. In these circumstances, French Premier Pierre Laval indicated last week: that Morocco must and will be given the greatest latitude in nonobservance of sanctions consistent with French "devotion to the League." All this Paris pother about Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan was of course M. Laval's high-sign last week to Italians that he is still secretly working his hardest to obtain the "free hand in Ethiopia'' he promised Benito Mussolini at the time of the Franco-Italian Pact (TIME...
Because Toscanini overshadows every conductor who appears in Manhattan, casual concertgoers have exhibited only a lackadaisical interest in his capable, scholarly colleague, born in Constantinople because his father was stationed there as supervisor of the music for the Sultan's marine bands. But it was a Hans Lange concert last week that aroused more real enthusiasm than any other musical event in the current Manhattan season...